The sole aim of the arts of scene-designing, costuming, lighting, is to enhance the natural powers of the actor.

A stage setting is not a background; it is an environment.

Realism is something we practice when we aren't feeling very well. When we don't feel up to the extra effort.

The theater is a school we shall never have done with studying and learning.

Don't listen to the person who has the answers; listen to the person who has the questions.

Values are related to our emotions, just as we practice physical hygiene to preserve our physical health, we need to observe emotional hygiene to preserve a healthy mind and attitudes.

The UK crowds always have a lot of energy, and I've done some milestone shows there that I'm very proud of.

Powerful people affect many others and if I can in some way contribute to their awareness, they will put out better energy to millions and millions of people.

I always imagined that I would learn something each time that I would take to a new project, then I realized that each new project poses a completely different challenge.

For all is like an ocean, all flows and connects; touch it in one place and it echoes at the other end of the world.

My whole life is a practical joke. Every evening and every show has really become about entertaining me. I was always like that. And now I've come full circle because that's what the TV show is too.

I hate politics, hate deals, and deal-making, hate meeting with attorneys and agents.

In three weeks Britain will have her neck wrung like a chicken.

I know there's bands that might write something that sounds like The Smiths, and they'll go, 'Oh, it sounds like The Smiths, we've got to make it sound not like The Smiths.'