Lead the audience by the nose to the thought.

I have to act to live.

I believe in the theater; I believe in it as the first glamorizer of thought. It restores dramatic dynamics and their relations to life size.

I'm rather bored by the subject - meaning me. It's a sort of a yoke, but at times you know, a yoke is a kind of comfort. And it's always there.

Acting is a masochistic form of exhibitionism. It is not quite the occupation of an adult.

What is acting but lying and what is good lying but convincing lying?

Acting is illusion, as much illusion as magic is - and not so much a matter of being real.