A true priest is aware of the presence of the altar during every moment that he is conducting a service. It is exactly the same way that a true artist should react to the stage all the time he is in the theater. An actor who is incapable of this feeling will never be a true artist.

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

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

In the creative process there is the father, the author of the play; the mother, the actor pregnant with the part; and the child, the role to be born.

In spite of my great admiration for individual splendid talents I do not accept the star system. Collective creative effort is the root of our kind of art. That requires ensemble acting and whoever mars that ensemble is committing a crime not only against his comrades but also against the very art of which he is the servant.

Young actors, fear your admirers! Learn in time, from your first steps, to hear, understand and love the cruel truth about yourselves. Find out who can tell you that truth and talk of your art only with those who can tell you the truth.

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