Your words are my food, your breath my wine. You are everything to me.

I adore Chicago. It is the pulse of America.

For the theatre one needs long arms... an artiste with short arms can never make a fine gesture.

The truth, the absolute truth, is that the chief beauty for the theatre consists in fine bodily proportions.

The actor is too prone to exaggerate his powers; he wants to play Hamlet when his appearance is more suitable to King Lear.

Although all new ideas are born in France, they are not readily adopted there. It seems that they must first commence to prosper in a foreign country.

He who is incapable of feeling strong passions, of being shaken by anger, of living in every sense of the word, will never be a good actor.