The person you are is a thousand times more interesting than the best actor you could ever hope to be.

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.

Who am I? What will I be? Why am I here? Where am I going?

Our demands are simple, normal, and therefore they are difficult to satisfy. All we ask is that an actor on the stage live in accordance with natural laws.

It is through you, actors, that the forces which are understood by millions and that tell of everything that is beautiful on earth, find expression. The forces which reveal to people the happiness of living in a widened consciousness and in the joy of creative work for the whole world. You, the actors of a theatre, which is one of the centres of human culture, will never be understood by the people if you are unable to reflect the spiritual needs of your time, the now in which you are living.

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

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