I call for actors burning at the stakes, laughing at the flames.

A real theatrical experience shakes the calm of the senses, liberates the compressed unconscious and drives towards a kind of potential revolt . . .

No one has ever written, painted, sculpted, modeled, built, or invented except literally to get out of hell.

The actor is an athlete of the heart.

There is in every madman a misunderstood genius whose idea, shining in his head, frightened people, and for whom delirium was the only solution to the strangulation that life had prepared for him.

I cannot conceive any work of art as having a separate existence from life itself

To break through language in order to touch life is to create or re-create the theater.

I abandon myself to the fever of dreams, in search for new laws.

I have need of angels. Enough hell has swallowed me for too many years. But finally understand this--I have burned up one hundred thousand human lives already, from the strength of my pain.

This is why true beauty never strikes us directly. The setting sun is beautiful because of all it makes us lose.

Tragedy on the stage is no longer enough for me, I shall bring it into my own life.

When you can't get what you want, get what you need

Growing older does not seem to make you more certain. It simply presents you with more reasons for doubt.

If you are lucky, one day you'll get the chance to have your life defined by how much you loved and were loved by someone else.

You are someone worth loving

The pretty girl is always right.

Everything that an artist does is a risk. Some people want you to stay the same. If you want to evolve, they want to keep you in a certain place.

Heavy is the root of light.

If I have any regrets, I could say that I'm sorry I wasn't a better writer or a better singer.

It is an endless procession of surprises. The expected rarely occurs and never in the expected manner.

White lies always introduce others of a darker complexion.