An actor is totally vulnerable. His total personality is exposed to critical judgment - his intellect, his bearing, his diction, his whole appearance. In short, his ego.

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Essentially, I'm a small-part actor who's been lucky enough to play leading roles for most...

Essentially, I'm a small-part actor who's been lucky enough to play leading roles for most...

Who is more foolish? The fool or the fool that follows it?

Who is more foolish? The fool or the fool that follows it?

A superb tenor voice, like a silver trumpet muffled in silk.

A superb tenor voice, like a silver trumpet muffled in silk.

I don't know what else I could do but pretend to be an actor.

I don't know what else I could do but pretend to be an actor.

I have something here for you. Your father wanted you to have this when you...

I have something here for you. Your father wanted you to have this when you...

It's the safety valve of middle life, and the solace of age.

It's the safety valve of middle life, and the solace of age.

I avoid talking before the youth of the age as I would dancing before them:...

I avoid talking before the youth of the age as I would dancing before them:...

As you know, no one over thirty years of age is afraid of tittle-tattle. I...

As you know, no one over thirty years of age is afraid of tittle-tattle. I...

Once I planned to write a book of poems entirely about the things in my...

Once I planned to write a book of poems entirely about the things in my...

Though age from folly could not give me freedom, It does from childishness.

Though age from folly could not give me freedom, It does from childishness.

In this age, the man who dares to think for himself and to act independently...

In this age, the man who dares to think for himself and to act independently...

It is well for the world that in most of us, by the age of...

It is well for the world that in most of us, by the age of...

We live in an age when unnecessary things are our only necessities.

We live in an age when unnecessary things are our only necessities.

Whenever a man's friends begin to compliment him about looking young, he may be sure...

Whenever a man's friends begin to compliment him about looking young, he may be sure...

Advertising causes conflicts at exactly the most vulnerable age for children to be in conflict...

Advertising causes conflicts at exactly the most vulnerable age for children to be in conflict...

Interest is the spur of the people, but glory that of great souls. Invention is...

Interest is the spur of the people, but glory that of great souls. Invention is...

Old age is a woman's hell.

Old age is a woman's hell.

Like everyone else who makes the mistake of getting older, I begin each day with...

Like everyone else who makes the mistake of getting older, I begin each day with...

Children from the age of five to ten should watch more television. Television depicts adults...

Children from the age of five to ten should watch more television. Television depicts adults...

O what a thing is age! Death without death's quiet.

O what a thing is age! Death without death's quiet.

Give me a woman who loves beer and I will conquer the world.

Give me a woman who loves beer and I will conquer the world.