You must have - besides intuition and sensitivity - a cutting edge that allows you to reach what you need. Also, you have to know life - bastards included - and it takes a bit of one to know one, don't you think?

Life is enthusiasm, zest.

Above all, you must remain open and fresh and alive to any new idea.

No matter how well you perform, there's always somebody of intelligent opinion who thinks it's lousy.

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?

Surely we have always acted; it is an instinct inherent in all of us. Some of us are better at it than others, but we all do it.

We ape, we mimic, we mock. We act.