I have to act to live.
Lead the audience by the nose to the thought.
Acting is a masochistic form of exhibitionism. It is not quite the occupation of an adult.
Have a very good reason for everything you do.
We have all, at one time or another, been performers, and many of us still are - politicians, playboys, cardinals and kings.
The office of drama is to exercise, possibly to exhaust, human emotions. The purpose of comedy is to tickle those emotions into an expression of light relief; of tragedy, to wound them and bring the relief of tears. Disgust and terror are the other points of the compass.