You'll never see any two good actors approach a role in the same way.

In life we listen to other people. Listen with varying degrees of concentration and attention, right? Actors must learn to listen in a different way.

You'll never see any two good actors approach a role in the same way.

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

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

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.

The direct effect on our mind is achieved by the words, the text, the thought, which arouse consideration. Our will is directly affected by the super-objective, by other objectives, by a through line of action. Our feelings are directly worked upon by tempo-rhythm.