"I do not want actors and actresses..." - Quote by George Bernard Shaw

“Marx's Kapital is not a treatise on socialism; it is a gerrymand against the bourgeoisie. It was supposed to be written for the working class, but the working man respects the bourgeoisie and wants to be a bourgeoisie. Marx never got a hold of him for a moment. It was the revolting sons of the bourgeoisie itself, like myself, that painted the flag red. The middle and upper classes are the revolutionary element in society. The proletariat is the conservative element.”

“For four wicked centuries the world has dreamed this foolish dream of efficiency; and the end is not yet. But the end will come.”

“Those who minister to poverty and disease are accomplices in the two worst of all the crimes.”

“The only way to see the value of a play is to see it acted.”

“My preference is live performance, because you get the feedback. There's an energy. It's live theater. That's why I think actors like that.”

“It was never my dream to be famous. I didn't start acting to be a movie star. I started in the theater and my desire was to get better at my craft. It's still my desire. I don't consider myself a movie star, nor do I really have the desire to be one. I'm just an entertainer. An actor who works hard at his craft. Whatever labels people give me, that's not really me or part of my process.”

“You can do 'Hamlet' while performing cartwheels... as long as the audience sees your eyes - you can make the performance real.”

“Acting became more than a profession to me. It became a sort of religion.”

“I don't want to do a TV series. It's no fun working from dawn to sunset every day. An occasional movie would be fine, and then I'll see what might develop on the political front.”