The theatre has built a whole art round the actor, based on the man and his double - the actor and his character.

Acting is the ability to keep an audience from coughing.

A classic is like a hidden treasure. Its core is buried under so many layers of varnish that it can be reached only by patience and infiltration.

You have to wake up a virgin each morning.

We often don't realize the passing of years until we see them in a child.

Humor is a way to deal with stresses. It is a way to cope.

It is fatal for art if it is forced into official respectability and condemned to sterile mediocrity.

It's not enough to be busy.

If a garden is well maintained and neatly landscaped, there must be a dedicated and efficient gardener.

The king, just and prudent, wants only those things which he can get.

If a man is not rising upward to be an angel, depend on it, he is sinking downward to be a devil.

All began in love, all seeks to return in love. Love is the law, the teacher of wisdom, and the great revealer of mysteries.

I hate when I lose my voice and then people try and talk to me and I seem like I'm being rude and then I hurt their feelings. That sucks.