Seventy-five percent of great art is hard work only about twenty-five percent is great talent.

Seventy-five percent of great art is hard work only about twenty-five percent is great talent.

The actor creates with his own flesh and blood all those things which all the arts try in some way to describe.

A great actor is independent of the poet, because the supreme essence of feeling does not reside in prose or in verse, but in the accent with which it is delivered.

Like the Bible, Stanislavsky's basic texts on acting can be quoted to any purpose.

Acting is the most personal of our crafts. The make-up of a human being - his physical, mental and emotional habits - influence his acting to a much greater extent than commonly recognized.

If we cannot see the possibility of greatness, how can we dream it?