Keep reading books, but remember that a book’s only a book, and you should learn to think for yourself.

The Englishman walks before the law like a trained horse in the circus. He has the sense of legality in his bones, in his muscles.

But I'm not to be caught with such poor bait! I'm a big fish, I am.

Talent I say is what an actor needs. And talent is faith in oneself, one's own powers.

Everybody, my friend, everybody lives for something better to come. That's why we want to be considerate of every man - Who knows what's in him, why he was born and what he can do?

If it is true that only misfortune can awaken a man's soul, it is a bitter truth, one that is hard to hear and accept, and it is only natural that many people deny it and say it is better for a man to live on in a trance than to wake up to torture.

Truth doesn't always heal a wounded soul.