This...is an age of specialization, and in such an age the repertory theater is an anachronism, a ludicrous anachronism.

You must make your own blunders, must cheerfully accept your own mistakes as part of the scheme of things.

...I have never known a movement in the theater that did not work direct and serious harm. Indeed, I have sometimes felt that the very people associated with various uplifting activities in the theater are people who are astoundingly lacking in idealism.

Among the most disheartening and dangerous of . . . advisors, you will often find those closest to you, your dearest friends, members of your own family, perhaps, loving, anxious, and knowing nothing whatever . . .

Be reflective...and stay away from the theater as much as you can. Stay out of the theatrical world, out of its petty interests, its inbreeding tendencies, its stifling atmosphere, its corroding influence. Once become

Idealistic producing is safe. Sensibly projected in the theater, the fine thing always does pay and always will.

...an actor is exactly as big as his imagination.