The need to be loved and protected is at a peak when we feel abandoned and are particularly vulnerable to difficult circumstances.

Thoughts and feelings are suspended in a vacuum unless they instigate and feed the selected actions, and it is the characters actions which reveal the character in the play.

One cannot demand of art that it pay you in any other way than in the satisfaction of the work itself.

The actor must know that since he, himself, is the instrument, he must play on it to serve the character with the same effortless dexterity with which the violinist makes music on his. Just because he doesn't look like a violin is no reason to assume his techniques should be thought of as less difficult.

All tedious research is worth one inspired moment.

We must overcome the notion that we must be regular... it robs you of the chance to be extraordinary and leads you to the mediocre.

I love going to the movies; I love watching good movie actors. They must know something I don't.