Claire Bloom

“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.”

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

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

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

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

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”