...an actor is exactly as big as his imagination.

This...is an age of specialization, and in such an age the repertory theater is an anachronism, a ludicrous anachronism.

Idealistic producing is safe. Sensibly projected in the theater, the fine thing always does pay and always will.

The actor who lets the dust accumulate on his Ibsen, his Shakspere [sic], and his Bible, but pores greedily over every little column of theatrical news, is a lost soul.

You must make your own blunders, must cheerfully accept your own mistakes as part of the scheme of things.

People whose understanding and taste in literature, painting, and music are beyond question are, for the most part, ignorant of what is good or bad art in the theater.

The essence of acting is the conveyance of truth through the medium of the actor's mind and person. The science of acting deals with the perfecting of that medium.

You must not allow yourself to be advised, cautioned, influenced, persuaded

Use the dirt life throws at you to plant the seeds of your success.

Education is the most important thing you can have.

I've still got a small fitness and conditioning business where I travel round the world doing stuff for individuals and corporations, mainly fitness training.

The true meaning of feminism is this: to use your strong womanly image to gain strong results in society.

The next level, by definition, is something you can't see and you can't understand.

Every page must explode, whether through seriousness, profundity, turbulence, nausea, the new, the eternal, annihilating nonsense, enthusiasm for principles, or the way it is printed.

When you choose to see the good in others, you end up finding the good in yourself.

Poverty often hides her charms under an ugly mask; yet thousands have been forced into greatness by their very struggle to keep the wolf from the door.

If ever there was a holy war, it was that which saved our liberties and gave us independence.

Football strategy does not originate in a scrimmage: it is useless to expect solutions in a political campaign.