The ideas of the great playwrights are almost always larger than the experiences of even the best actors.

The world is governed by very different personages from what is imagined by those who are not behind the scenes.

There is no education like adversity.

There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.

Nurture your mind with great thoughts, for you will never go any higher than you think.

There is no act of treachery or meanness of which a political party is not capable; for in politics there is no honour.

The most important thing you can teach actors is to understand plays.

I would live in a communist country providing I was the Queen.

If you can't take both sides, it means you can only play yourself.

The word theatre comes from the Greeks. It means the seeing place.

The ultimate aim of the training is to create an actor who can be responsible for his artistic development and achievement.

No actor is a success unless he feels inside himself, as long as he lives, that he is good.

The actor must be full of passion. If he's too cool he's better off as the manager of a company, not someone who appears on the stage.

By taking elements you observe in life, you can develop qualities in your acting life that you don't ordinarily call upon in your personal life.

An addict is someone who uses their body to tell society that something is wrong.

Our heritage as actors goes back thousands of years, and we have to feel as comfortable in the clothes, and the language of Sophocles as we do in our sneakers.

Be innocent, wise and ninety-five.

The theatre is a spiritual and social X-ray of its time.

The theatre-acting, creating, interpreting - means total involvement, the totality of heart, mind and spirit.