life beats down and crushes the soul and art reminds you that you have one

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.

because daytime leaves vampires less than, well, conscious, I told him, “Take your muffins to Boston and shut it, Terrance.” And then I hung up on him.

For each new morning let there be flow of love. Let there be light of happiness in every direction.

They are bright and exciting. Like America. Like its women.

Never Waste Your Time, Otherwise one day Time Will Waste or Spoil You.

My age, my inclinations, are no longer what they were.

You have the health you deserve.

I don't see that a single line can constitute a stanza, although it can constitute a whole poem.

Blessed the man and woman who is able to serve cheerfully in the second rank - a big test.

Man and nature belong together in their created glory – in their tragedy and in their salvation.

Arsenal could have happened, as everybody knows, but I would not do a trial. Who do you think regrets that more - Arsene Wenger or Zlatan?