Actors are athletes of the heart.

A real theatrical experience shakes the calm of the senses, liberates the compressed unconscious and drives towards a kind of potential revolt . . .

No one has ever written, painted, sculpted, modeled, built, or invented except literally to get out of hell.

The actor is an athlete of the heart.

There is in every madman a misunderstood genius whose idea, shining in his head, frightened people, and for whom delirium was the only solution to the strangulation that life had prepared for him.

I cannot conceive any work of art as having a separate existence from life itself

To break through language in order to touch life is to create or re-create the theater.

I abandon myself to the fever of dreams, in search for new laws.

I have need of angels. Enough hell has swallowed me for too many years. But finally understand this--I have burned up one hundred thousand human lives already, from the strength of my pain.

This is why true beauty never strikes us directly. The setting sun is beautiful because of all it makes us lose.

Tragedy on the stage is no longer enough for me, I shall bring it into my own life.

The thought of you makes my heart melt.

self-preservation is the primary and only foundation of virtue.

The non-violent movement seeks justice and reconciliation, not victory - or not just victory.

If you completely accept something, it changes. If you completely accept it, it shifts.

The durability of free speech and free press rests on the simple concept that it search for the truth and tell the truth.

I will still carry on changing all the time.

A good idea for a new business tends not to occur in isolation, and often the window of opportunity is very small. So speed is of the essence.

You're always having to live more to fuel something new. It's an obligation to yourself and to the audience. The personal baggage that comes with being a known actor just adds to that struggle.

Nothing is proved, all is permitted.