Remember this practical piece of advice: Never come into the theatre with mud on your feet. Leave your dust and dirt outside. Check your little worries, squabbles, petty difficulties with your outside clothing - all the things that ruin your life and draw your attention away from your art - at the door.

Remember: there are no small parts, only small actors.

The character has to have some kind of arch. The character has to go through an event, and be changed by the human event.

All art is autobiographical - if it's not, it's not going to quicken on-stage, and it's not going to come alive.

Who am I? What will I be? Why am I here? Where am I going?

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.

The main difference between the art of the actor and all other arts is that every other [non-performing] artist may create whenever he is in the mood of inspiration. But the artist of the stage must be the master of his own inspiration, and must know how to call it forth at the hour announced on the posters of the theatre. This is the chief secret of our art.