Michael York

“I regard the theatre as the greatest of all art forms, the most immediate way in which a human being can share with another the sense of what it is to be a human being.”

“My whole career has been an attempt to educate myself.”

“I love my past. I love my present. I'm not ashamed of what I've had, and I'm not sad because I have it no longer.”

“The great thing about being an actor is that you can do as many things as you can.”

“It's a great advantage to be able to play a sport that you can play all your life. The older you get, the better you get. You can always improve.”

“Health is the greatest of God's gifts, but we take it for granted; yet it hangs on a thread as fine as a spider's web and the smallest thing can sever it.”

“For me, the camera is a microscope.”

“I've always been drawn to the theatrical.”

“You feel you've been summoned to a duty.”

“I did some very good things as a boy, and then I went to the university and that sort of completed the outline of the cultural man.”

“I think the joy of acting is the joy of being alive, really.”