The actor must use his imagination to be able to answer all questions (when, where, why, how). Make the make-believer existence more definite.

Every person who is really an artist desires to create inside of himself another, deeper, more interesting life than the one that actually surrounds him.

In the language of an actor, to know is synonymous with to feel

Never lose yourself on the stage. Always act in your own person, as an artist. The moment you lose yourself on the stage marks the departure from truly living your part and the beginning of exaggerated false acting. Therefore, no matter how much you act, how many parts you take, you should never allow yourself any exception to the rule of using your own feelings. To break that rule is the equivalent of killing the person you are portraying, because you deprive him of a palpitating, living, human soul, which is the real source of life for a part.

Success is transient, evanescent. The real passion lies in the poignant acquisition of knowledge about all the shading and subtleties of the creative secrets.

Fear your admirers! Learn in time to hear, understand, and love the cruel truth about yourselves!

I was born an ordinary actor. I will die an ordinary actor. But I've persisted.