A good actor must never be in love with anyone but himself.
Life is very nice, but it lacks form. It's the aim of art to give it some.
When you are forty, half of you belongs to the past... And when you are seventy, nearly all of you.
Beauty, real beauty, is something very grave. If there is a God, He must be partly that.
Saintliness is also a temptation.
Life is very nice, but it has no shape. The object of art is actually to give it some and to do it by every artifice possible-truer than the truth.