The play is not in the words, it’s in you!

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.

Seeds of doubt, once planted, will grow.

It’s not really pressure, unless you’re not prepared.

I am a charity campaigner.

Old age is not a time of life. It is a condition of the body. It is not time that ages the body, it is abuse that does.

All that science can achieve is a perfect knowledge and a perfect understanding of the action of natural and moral forces.

I've never been resigned to ready-made ideas as I was to ready-made clothes, perhaps because although I couldn't sew, I could think.

Never start with tomorrow to reach eternity. Eternity is not being reached by small steps.

If you are drawn to the left hand path, it's usually because you've had some kind of life experience that has shocked you, awakened you.

We have no Arab intellectuals of international stature because we live in a state of generalized mediocrity. We are suspended in the pit without touching the bottom.

If you are passionate only about yourself -that is the road to disaster.