Thoughts and feelings are suspended in a vacuum unless they instigate and feed the selected actions, and it is the characters actions which reveal the character in the play.

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All tedious research is worth one inspired moment.

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Theoretically, the actor ought to be more sound in mind and body than other people, since he learns to understand the psychological problems of human beings when putting his own passions, his loves, fears, and rages to work in the service of the characters he plays. He will learn to face himself, to hide nothing from himself- and to do so takes AN INSATIABLE CURIOSITY ABOUT THE HUMAN CONDITION

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Once in a while, there's stuff that makes me say, That's what theatre's about. It has to be a human event on the stage, and that doesn't happen very often.

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I have disassociated myself from that book.

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I love playing Chekhov. That's the hardest; that's why I love it most.

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The knowledge that every day there is something more to learn, something higher to reach for, something new to make for others, makes each day infinitely precious

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To rebel or revolt against the status quo is in the very nature of an artist.

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Keep pace with the present. Take a trip to the moon. envision the future.

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Talent is an amalgam of high sensitivity; easy vulnerability; high sensory equipment (seeing, hearing, touching, smelling, tasting intensely); a vivid imagination as well as a grip on reality; the desire to communicate one's own experience and sensations, to make one's self heard and seen.

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