In the creative process there is the father, the author of the play; the mother, the actor pregnant with the part; and the child, the role to be born.

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?

You can be great in any area of life, just learn to convert time into added value and tangible products.

No matter how challenging things get, never stop believing in yourself. Self-doubt is nothing but a highway to failure.

Everything is figureoutable

A quarrelsome man has no good neighbours.

Politics is human beings; it's addition rather than subtraction.

Stress is extremely harmful to the body.

the majority of critical, and plenty of uncritical, readers find quotations a bore.

at last no one decided And no one knocked And no one jumped up And no one opened And there stood no one And no one entered And no one said: welcome And no one answered: at last

I think that war is diplomacy. There have been wars that have been fought for righteous reasons and there are wars that have had to be fought. Indeed, there will continue to be.

I don't paint to live, I live to paint.