Don't tire yourself more than need be, even at the price of founding a culture on the fatigue of your bones.

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 most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don't have any.

How do you know?”“Well, I don’t, I’m making this up, but I bet I’m right.

Blessed are the elderly men and women.

Every film has an origin. It is made under certain circumstances, and that is a very important point that should be kept in mind during a review.

An important fact about verbal behavior is that speaker and listener may reside within the same skin.

I think [Bashar] Assad is a bad guy, a very bad guy, all right?

Ideas rose in clouds; I felt them collide until pairs interlocked, so to speak, making a stable combination.

I am against performance-enhancing drugs. I have never taken them and I never will take them.

We're kind of like the smoking section in high school. We're immature, keep to ourselves.

All I do is work out, oh my God! Half my life is spent in a gym somewhere, sweating.