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

Unless the theatre can ennoble you, make you a better person, you should flee from it.

The main factor in any form of creativeness is the life of a human spirit, that of the actor and his part, their joint feelings and subconscious creation.

Of course, if you have thought up to now that an actor relies merely on inspiration you will have to change your mind. Talent without work is nothing more than raw unfinished material.

The greatest wisdom is to realize one's lack of it.

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

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.