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

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

The life of a character should be an unbroken line of events and emotions, but a play only gives us a few moments on that line - we must create the rest to portray a convincing life.

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

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.

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

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

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

Play well, or play badly, but play truly.

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

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

When you plant a seed of love, it is you that blossoms.

How much do we remember of what hurts us most? I've been thinking about pain, how each of us constructs our past to justify what we feel now. How each successive pain distorts the preceding.

I think of my best poems as vessels that I can or hope to fill with everything I have.

There have been great champions in every generation.

I just try and surround myself, for the biggest proportion of time that I can, with people who make me feel normal, because constantly feeling abnormal is quite difficult.

An editor should have a pimp for a brother so he'd have someone to look up to.

You need a bad operation. Gimme the scissors, hammer, flame.

You did not bring down two of the royal guard in an unceremonious heap because the woman in the middle tripped.

I love dabbling in different genres, and I like being good at different genres of cinema.

I will catch a wave every day, even in my mind.