It must be noted that it is often the colleague or direct disciple of a new thinker who gets stuck in literal interpretations of the work, tending to freeze the new ideas and language into an inflexible, static condition.

I won't go to England because they won't let my dog in.

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

I have disassociated myself from that book.

To rebel or revolt against the status quo is in the very nature of an artist.

Theoretically, the actor ought to be more sound in mind and body than other people, since he learns to understand the psychological problems of human beings when putting his own passions, his loves, fears, and rages to work in the service of the characters he plays. He will learn to face himself, to hide nothing from himself- and to do so takes AN INSATIABLE CURIOSITY ABOUT THE HUMAN CONDITION

The knowledge that every day there is something more to learn, something higher to reach for, something new to make for others, makes each day infinitely precious