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.

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

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

The theatre infects the audience with its noble ecstasy.

Gratuitous cruelty borders on the pathological, psychotic and that becomes uninteresting because there is no choice.