What is important to me is not the truth outside myself, but the truth within myself.

In every physical action, unless it is purely mechanical, there is concealed some inner action, some feelings. This is how the two levels of life in a part are created, the inner and the outer. They are intertwined. A common purpose brings them together and reinforces the unbreakable bond.

The life of a character should be an unbroken line of events and emotions, but a play only gives us a few moments on that line - we must create the rest to portray a convincing life.

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

The theatre infects the audience with its noble ecstasy.

At times of great stress it is especially necessary to achieve a complete freeing of the muscles

In talking about a genius, you would not say that he lies; he sees realities with different eyes from ours.