What is acting but lying and what is good lying 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.

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

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?

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

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.

You think you're an artist; prove it