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All action in theatre must have inner justification, be logical, coherent, and real.

In talking about a genius, you would not say that he lies; he sees realities with different eyes from ours.

Doubt is the enemy of creativeness.

The language of the body is the key that can unlock the soul.

The greatest wisdom is to realize one's lack of it.

When we are on stage, we are in the here and now.

Gratuitous cruelty borders on the pathological, psychotic and that becomes uninteresting because there is no choice.

In the creative process there is the father, the author of the play; the mother, the actor pregnant with the part; and the child, the role to be born.

Fear your admirers! Learn in time to hear, understand, and love the cruel truth about yourselves!

I was born an ordinary actor. I will die an ordinary actor. But I've persisted.

Talent is nothing but a prolonged period of attention and a shortened period of mental assimilation.

Don't go so deep in yourself that you no longer exist for your partner and for the character and for the play.

The actor must use his imagination to be able to answer all questions (when, where, why, how). Make the make-believer existence more definite.

Love the art in yourself, not yourself in the art.

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.

You must be so thoroughly immersed in the given circumstances of the play, then you decide what it is at any given moment what that the actor wants.

Never allow yourself externally to portray anything that you have not inwardly experienced and which is not even interesting to you.

What is important to me is not the truth outside myself, but the truth within myself.

In life we listen to other people. Listen with varying degrees of concentration and attention, right? Actors must learn to listen in a different way.

At times of great stress it is especially necessary to achieve a complete freeing of the muscles

Who am I? What will I be? Why am I here? Where am I going?

Play well, or play badly, but play truly.

Remember: there are no small parts, only small actors.

All art is autobiographical - if it's not, it's not going to quicken on-stage, and it's not going to come alive.

Unless the theatre can ennoble you, make you a better person, you should flee from it.

The character has to have some kind of arch. The character has to go through an event, and be changed by the human event.

You'll never see any two good actors approach a role in the same way.

The person you are is a thousand times more interesting than the best actor you could ever hope to be.