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

The theatre infects the audience with its noble ecstasy.

Never allow yourself externally to portray anything that you have not inwardly experienced and which is not even interesting to you.

The language of the body is the key that can unlock the soul.

When an actor is completely absorbed by some profoundly moving objective so that he throws his whole being passionately into its execution, he reaches a state we call inspiration.

Our demands are simple, normal, and therefore they are difficult to satisfy. All we ask is that an actor on the stage live in accordance with natural laws.

The direct effect on our mind is achieved by the words, the text, the thought, which arouse consideration. Our will is directly affected by the super-objective, by other objectives, by a through line of action. Our feelings are directly worked upon by tempo-rhythm.