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

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.

Success is transient, evanescent. The real passion lies in the poignant acquisition of knowledge about all the shading and subtleties of the creative secrets.

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.

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

The actor must use his imagination to be able to answer all questions (when, where, why, how). Make the make-believer existence more definite.

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