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

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

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

I have taken film-work that has been a little more cliché-written, to support myself and my family, and that's a whole kind of other challenge. It's like chopping wood: You've got to take what you can get and bless what withstands you. But in theatre! There's enough great theatre that you can find something interesting!

It is only when an actor feels that his inner and outer life on the stage is flowing naturally and normally, in the circumstances that surround him, that the deeper sources of his subconscious gently open, and from them come feelings we cannot always analyse.

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