Art, especially the stage, is an area where it is impossible to walk without stumbling. There are in store for you many unsuccessful days and whole unsuccessful seasons: there will be great misunderstandings and deep disappointments… you must be prepared for all this, expect it and nevertheless, stubbornly, fanatically follow your own way.

I think human beings must have faith or must look for faith, otherwise our life is empty, empty. To live and not to know why the cranes fly, why children are born, why there are stars in the sky. You must know why you are alive, or else everything is nonsense, just blowing in the wind.

The wealthy man is not he who has money, but he who has the means to live in the luxurious state of early spring.

It always seems to the brothers and the father that their brother or son didn't marry the right person.

There are plenty of good people, but only a very, very few are precise and disciplined.

If I had listened to the critics I'd have died drunk in the gutter

Man is what he believes.