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.

Good health is the most important thing. More than success. More than money. More than power.

Work for the actor lies essentially in two areas: the ability to consistently create reality and the ability to express that reality.

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

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.

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