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

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.

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?

When you're playing a character who's cruel, look for the places where he's kind. When you're playing a character who is unhappy, look for the places where he has a glint of merriment.

Those who make the worst use of their time are the first to complain of its brevity.

The rewards of faith are beyond doubt.

There you have it: our lives in a nutshell. Emphasis on nut.

It is better to deserve honours and not have them than to have them and not deserve them.

It was a pretty good year for predators.

Authentic power is a new potential of this expanded perceptual system that we are all being given as a gift.

Just remember it's the birds that's supposed to suffer, not the hunter.

As a mom, I know that raising children is the hardest job there is.

I think his greatest fault is his failure to accord credit to anyone for what he may have done. This is a great weakness in any man.