Claire Bloom

“Chaplin was a genius, an absolute genius. There are no two ways about it.”

“I don't think you can be a good actor if you're not a good listener.”

“We actors are a strange breed. We have to have a certain amount of ego, but we also have to be very vulnerable.”

“It's what's in yourself that makes you attractive.”

“I was brought up to believe that the only thing worth doing was to be an artist.”

“I have been very, very lucky because I have worked with the greatest directors.”

“I've learned to be more accepting of myself. I'm a work in progress.”

“I think the most important thing for an actor is to have a sense of truth.”

“I've always been a risk-taker; I've never been a cautious person.”

“Unless you have a real passion for acting, I don't think you should be in it.”

“The theater is my home. I feel more comfortable on a stage than I do anywhere else.”

“One must be entirely dependent on the writer, and the writer on the actor. It is a wonderful symbiosis.”