All art is autobiographical - if it's not, it's not going to quicken on-stage, and it's not going to come alive.

All action in theatre must have inner justification, be logical, coherent, and real.

The life of a character should be an unbroken line of events and emotions, but a play only gives us a few moments on that line - we must create the rest to portray a convincing life.

The person you are is a thousand times more interesting than the best actor you could ever hope to be.

Create your own method. Don't depend slavishly on mine. Make up something that will work for you! But keep breaking traditions, I beg you.

The actor must use his imagination to be able to answer all questions (when, where, why, how). Make the make-believer existence more definite.

The language of the body is the key that can unlock the soul.

What is important to me is not the truth outside myself, but the truth within myself.

Play well, or play badly, but play truly.

Never allow yourself externally to portray anything that you have not inwardly experienced and which is not even interesting to you.

Who am I? What will I be? Why am I here? Where am I going?

The greatest life is the love for God. And the love for thy neighbour.

With a clear vision you will arrive at your define-destination.

[A]ny being with thesupposed capacity to create the logically impossible must himself be logically impossible.

Some reviewed 'The Master' on their knees, and while I respected its distinctive discordancy - can a movie be at once feverish and glacial? - I was unmoved.

I don't know what the outcome will be. I put a couple away for my grandkids, like that. So I don't know, who knows? Maybe I'll start building guitars for a living.

I go out as a missionary not that I may follow the dictates of common sense, but that I may obey that command of Christ.

We speak with one voice,” Walt said. “Especially on this matter. No one hurts Sadie Kane.

My big problem is that I don't promote my electronic music very much because it makes my 'normal' fans angry!

The silence of the mountain is even more beautiful once the birds are quiet.

Happiness wishes everybody happy.