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.

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?

Hey Nana, do you remember the first time we met? I beleive in things like fate. So I think it was fate.

Fascination is a key to productivity; it unites experiences; it is even its own reward.

I find its attention to living this life rather than the next one exhilarating because I think even independently of Judaism that that's the right way to go about life.

Every hue throughout your work is altered by every touch you add in other places.

I think the brutality is important to convey as part of the story, to see how brutal it is to have these kids in battle with one another.

Love does not grow on trees or brought in the market, but if one wants to be "LOVED" one must first know how to give (unconditional) LOVE.

The wise man knows he doesn't know.

Dogs are angels sent from heaven in order to help us to be better people.

I felt like I was living in some sort of video game and people pre-empting every move I made, obviously as a result of accessing my private information.

Nothing remains but desire, and desire comes howling down Elysian Fields like a mistral.