Max Reinhardt Quotes

The art of lighting the stage consists of putting light where you want it and taking it away from where you don't want it.

We all bear within us the potentiality for every kind of passion, every fate, every way of life. Nothing human is alien to us. If this were not so, we could not understand other people, either in life or in art. But inheritance and upbringing foster individual experiences and develop only a few of our thousands of possibilities. The others gradually sicken and die.

The job of an actor is disclosure, not pretence!

I believe in the immortality of the Theatre, it is a most joyous place to hide, for all those who have secretly put their childhood in their pockets and run off and away with it, to play on to the end of their days.

Always act the part — and you can become whatever you wish to become!