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

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.

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.

I see in the act of throwing the dice and of risking the affirmation of some intuitively felt truth, however uncertain, my whole reason for living.

It's like I'm thirteen again and he's my crush. All I'm aware of in this entire roomful of people is him. Where he is, what he's doing, who he's talking to.

I think women are excellent social critics.

I think sometimes women are not driven by the same, albeit, testosterone power thing that pushes men to get into politics.

We have to confront the very scary fact that the president is a moron. He's really dumb.

I'm of course nostalgic for Barack Obama all of a sudden.

What advertisers call brand loyalty is merely the consumer's defense against the need to waste energy differentiating among things that barely differ.

By the time I got to the Paris Conservatoire I was very good at the scales and arpeggios.

There's more than one way for a girl to Google a cat.

I am not trying to do material which I cannot do full out.

The difference between a drunk and a alcoholic is that a drunk doesn't have to attend all those meetings.