It was so quiet that morning in Paris that the heels of my two companions and myself were loud on the deserted pavements. It was a city of shuttered shops, and barred windows, and deserted avenues.
Ideas are, in truth, force.
Three things in human life are important. The first is to be kind. The second is to be kind. And the third is to be kind.
I am incapable of telling you not to feel. Feel, feel, I say - feel for all you're worth, and even if it half kills you, for that is the only way to live.
It's time to start living the life you've imagined.
He is outside of everything, and alien everywhere. He is an aesthetic solitary. His beautiful, light imagination is the wing that on the autumn evening just brushes the dusky window.
Criticism talks a good deal of nonsense, but even its nonsense is a useful force. It keeps the question of art before the world, insists upon its importance.
If you're Irish, it doesn't matter where you go-you'll find family.
Hardly anyone knows how much is gained by ignoring the future.
Directing has only increased my admiration and respect for what it is that actors do.
Families aren't easy to join. They're like an exclusive country club where membership makes impossible demands and the dues for an outsider are exorbitant.