Success is transient, evanescent. The real passion lies in the poignant acquisition of knowledge about all the shading and subtleties of the creative secrets.

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?

Only the Truth of God can redeem humankind.

One of the highest marks of citizenship is fighting for the common defense.

Good men study to spiritualize their bodies; bad men to incarnate their souls.

A cat, I am told, has nine lives. If that is true, I know how a cat feels.

A good film script should be able to do completely without dialogue.

There's a massive part of me that can be bold and courageous...very strong and very assertive and independent, almost to a fault sometimes.

I don't like making a film and having the actors in character too much in magazines and on the net and everything else. Because you want to keep something back.

One can live magnificently in this world if one knows how to work and how to love.

Change is inevitable and always good in one sense or the other.

American pop group N'SYNC's. I listened to it endlessly in my dad's car. This also made me wanna be a singer.