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

In the language of an actor, to know is synonymous with to feel

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

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

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.

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.

What is important to me is not the truth outside myself, but the truth within myself.