Don't go so deep in yourself that you no longer exist for your partner and for the character and for the play.

What is important to me is not the truth outside myself, but the truth within myself.

Remember this practical piece of advice: Never come into the theatre with mud on your feet. Leave your dust and dirt outside. Check your little worries, squabbles, petty difficulties with your outside clothing - all the things that ruin your life and draw your attention away from your art - at the door.

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.

We have as many planes of speech as does a painting planes of perspective which create perspective in a phrase. The most important word stands out most vividly defined in the very foreground of the sound plane. Less important words create a series of deeper planes.

It is only when an actor feels that his inner and outer life on the stage is flowing naturally and normally, in the circumstances that surround him, that the deeper sources of his subconscious gently open, and from them come feelings we cannot always analyse.

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