Play well, or play badly, but play truly.

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

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.

Love the art in yourself, not yourself in the art.

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.

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

In the language of an actor, to know is synonymous with to feel