In life we listen to other people. Listen with varying degrees of concentration and attention, right? Actors must learn to listen in a different way.

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?

There's a reason prophets perform miracles: language lacks the power to describe faith. And you have to land on faith before you can even begin to hike around to its flip side, betrayal.

The evidence is that people who enter hospice don't have shorter lives. In many cases they are longer.

I just did whatever it took to keep making music - I slept on couches. You would be amazed at how far $20 can go if you stretch it out.

All the teams you have have different personalities, and you kind of want it.

I'm not sure I ever pleased Ian [Buchanan] with my progress, but he continued to tolerate me. I had to work at everything that I did. Well, it wasn't work; it was fun actually.

I came to Moscow when I was 5 years old from Baku. To walk all night in Moscow will bring back my youth to me.

Love is the natural condition of all experience before thought has divided it into a multiplicity and diversity of objects, selves and others.

He who asks with timidity invites a refusal.

That great philosopher anonymous once said, never argue with a fool. People might not know the difference.