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

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.

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

Talent is nothing but a prolonged period of attention and a shortened period of mental assimilation.

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.

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

When you're playing a character who's cruel, look for the places where he's kind. When you're playing a character who is unhappy, look for the places where he has a glint of merriment.