In every physical action, unless it is purely mechanical, there is concealed some inner action, some feelings. This is how the two levels of life in a part are created, the inner and the outer. They are intertwined. A common purpose brings them together and reinforces the unbreakable bond.

A true priest is aware of the presence of the altar during every moment that he is conducting a service. It is exactly the same way that a true artist should react to the stage all the time he is in the theater. An actor who is incapable of this feeling will never be a true artist.

Gratuitous cruelty borders on the pathological, psychotic and that becomes uninteresting because there is no choice.

Play well, or play badly, but play truly.

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.

I was born an ordinary actor. I will die an ordinary actor. But I've persisted.

The character has to have some kind of arch. The character has to go through an event, and be changed by the human event.