I have to act to live.

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.

Lead the audience by the nose to the thought.

Shakespeare - The nearest thing in incarnation to the eye of God.

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

There is a spirit in us that makes our brass to blare and our cymbals crash-all, of course, supported by the practicalities of trained lung power, throat, heart, guts.

You think you're an artist; prove it