Autograph-hunting is the most unattractive manifestation of sex-starved curiosity.
I believe in the theater; I believe in it as the first glamorizer of thought. It restores dramatic dynamics and their relations to life size.
You think you're an artist; prove it
I often think that could we creep behind the actor's eyes, we would find an attic of forgotten toys and a copy of the Domesday Book.
Scratch an actor and you'll find an actor.
If you're an artist, you've got to prove it.
Art is a little bit larger than life - it's an exhalation of life and I think you probably need a little touch of madness.
Work is life for me, it is the only point of life - and with it, there is the almost religious belief that service is everything.
We ape, we mimic, we mock. We act.
Acting, is not a profession for adults.
Lead the audience by the nose to the thought.
Acting is an illusion, as much illusion as magic is - and not so much a matter of being real.
Life is enthusiasm, zest.
Acting is a masochistic form of exhibitionism. It is not quite the occupation of an adult.
I believe that in a great city, or even in a small city or a village, a great theatre is the outward and visible sign of an inward and probable culture.
Above all, you must remain open and fresh and alive to any new idea.
What is acting but lying and what is good lying but convincing lying?