The only excuse for not coming to a class or a performance is death.

Life beats down and crushes the soul and art reminds you that you have one.

The actor has to develop his body. The actor has to work on his voice. But the most important thing the actor has to work on is his mind.

The word theatre comes from the Greeks. It means the seeing place. It is the place people come to see the truth about life and the social situation.

When you stand on the stage you must have a sense that you are addressing the whole world, and that what you say is so important the whole world must listen.

You have to do something. If you do something, you become somebody. Even a daffodil does something, has a profession. It gives off scent, professionally.

You have to get beyond your own precious inner experiences.

You'll begin to act when you can forget your technique - when it is so securely inside you that you need not call upon it consciously.

You will only fail to learn if you do not learn from failing.

Actors need a kind of aggression, a kind of inner force. Don't be only one-sided, sweet, nice, good. Get rid of being average. Find the killer in you.

Happy children should not try to be artists. You have to be born with a broken heart and a sense of loneliness inside. I never had a happy moment as a child myself.

Passion is never pathetic.

The purpose of life on earth is that the soul should grow - So Growl By doing what is right.

Shakespeare teaches you how to act. You come out of this process as a better actor. It's just the nature of the words he writes.

Sport can bring communities together and can release a lot of pent-up emotions

I don't deal in technique. I deal in emotions.

For usually people resist as long as they can to dismiss the fool they harbor in their bosom, they resist to confess a major mistake or to admit a truth that makes them despair.

As the years have gone on, I find one of the dangers of watching dailies... is you fall in love with moments.

It was you Nabi. It was always you. Didn't you know?

Spring comes: the flowers learn their colored shapes.

If I could live a parallel life, I would be a sitcom star; being in front of a live audience would be great.