Documentation is misleading, because the performance is dead. So the very early works were not documented at all.

I believe so much in the power of performance I don't want to convince people. I want them to experience it and come away convinced on their own.

In real life, you just work for the ordinary self, but in the front of audience you become the superself. That's a completely different thing.

My memoirs are full of humor, I had to change jokes because it was a little too dark.

If you're a woman, it's almost impossible to establish a relationship. You're too much for everybody. It's too much. The woman always has to play this role of being fragile and dependent. And if you're not, they're fascinated by you, but only for a little while. And then they want to change you and crush you. And then they leave.

The world doesn't need an artist who shows reality as it is

If you see a Renaissance body, this is completely ugly in this time. Everybody has to be skinny. But the Renaissance body with incredible flow of the meat everywhere, it was beauty.