When an actor has money he doesn't send letters, he sends telegrams.

[In] death at least there would be one profit; it would no longer be necessary to eat, to drink, to pay taxes, or to [offend] others; and as a man lies in his grave not one year, but hundreds and thousands of years, the profit was enormous. The life of man was, in short, a loss, and only his death a profit.

When a person hasn't in him that which is higher and stronger than all external influences, it is enough for him to catch a good cold in order to lose his equilibrium and begin to see an owl in every bird, to hear a dog's bark in every sound.

In all the universe nothing remains permanent and unchanged but the spirit.

I confess I seldom commune with my conscience when I write.

Art, especially the stage, is an area where it is impossible to walk without stumbling.

Without a knowledge of languages you feel as if you don't have a passport.