Young actors, fear your admirers! Learn in time, from your first steps, to hear, understand and love the cruel truth about yourselves. Find out who can tell you that truth and talk of your art only with those who can tell you the truth.

Talent is nothing but a prolonged period of attention and a shortened period of mental assimilation.

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

Play well, or play badly, but play truly.

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

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.

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.