We have all, at one time or another, been performers, and many of us still are - politicians, playboys, cardinals and kings.

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 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.

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

Have a very good reason for everything you do.

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?

I believe that in a great city, or even in a small city or a village, a great theater is the outward and visible sign of an inward and probable culture.