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.

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

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

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.

Don't go so deep in yourself that you no longer exist for your partner and for the character and for the play.

Unless the theatre can ennoble you, make you a better person, you should flee from it.

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