You have to get beyond your own precious inner experiences.
You'll never really be great unless you aim high.
When you stand on the stage you must have a sense that you are addressing the whole world, and that what you say is so important the whole world must listen.
The most important thing you can teach actors is to understand plays.
The theatre is a spiritual and social X-ray of its time.
Life beats down and crushes the soul and art reminds you that you have one.