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

Create your own method. Don't depend slavishly on mine. Make up something that will work for you! But keep breaking traditions, I beg you.

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.

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.

At times of great stress it is especially necessary to achieve a complete freeing of the muscles

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

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.