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

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

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

In the circle of light on the state in the midst of darkness, you have the sensation of being entirely alone... This is called solitude in public... During a performance, before an audience of thousands, you can always enclose yourself in this circle, like a snail in its shell... You can carry it wherever you go.

In life we listen to other people. Listen with varying degrees of concentration and attention, right? Actors must learn to listen in a different way.

The main factor in any form of creativeness is the life of a human spirit, that of the actor and his part, their joint feelings and subconscious creation.

All art is autobiographical - if it's not, it's not going to quicken on-stage, and it's not going to come alive.