The art of persuasion. The actor persuades himself, first, and through himself, the audience.

I have to act to live.

Work is life for me, it is the only point of life - and with it there is almost religious belief that service is everything.

I am far from sure when I am acting and when I am not or, should I more frankly put it, when I am lying and when I am not. For what is acting but lying and what is good acting but convincing lying?

I don't know what is better than the work that is given to the actor-to teach the human heart the knowledge of itself.

I often think that could we creep behind the actor's eyes, we would find an attic of forgotten toys and a copy of the Domesday Book.

Without acting, I cannot breathe.