The theatre-acting, creating, interpreting - means total involvement, the totality of heart, mind and spirit.

Life beats down and crushes the soul and art reminds you that you have one.

The actor has to develop his body. The actor has to work on his voice. But the most important thing the actor has to work on is his mind.

The word theatre comes from the Greeks. It means the seeing place. It is the place people come to see the truth about life and the social situation.

When you stand on the stage you must have a sense that you are addressing the whole world, and that what you say is so important the whole world must listen.

You have to do something. If you do something, you become somebody. Even a daffodil does something, has a profession. It gives off scent, professionally.

You have to get beyond your own precious inner experiences.

You'll begin to act when you can forget your technique - when it is so securely inside you that you need not call upon it consciously.

You will only fail to learn if you do not learn from failing.

Actors need a kind of aggression, a kind of inner force. Don't be only one-sided, sweet, nice, good. Get rid of being average. Find the killer in you.

Happy children should not try to be artists. You have to be born with a broken heart and a sense of loneliness inside. I never had a happy moment as a child myself.

The type of person you are is usually reflected in your business. To improve your business, first improve yourself.

You are the only person who can make you happy and whole. You do not have another half out there waiting to be discovered.

How am I, a writer, supposed to feel about having lost you to a reader?

Well, in pharmacology, if the effect is local, it's of course absolutely awkward to use it in any other way than as a local treatment.

Imitate the magnificent trees that speak no word of their rapture, but only breathe largely the luminous breeze.

In the gospels the very first step a man must take is an act which radically affects his whole existence.

When all sinnes grow old, coveteousnesse is young.

Amethyst is a meditative and calming stone that works in the emotional, spiritual, and physical planes to provide calm, balance, patience, and peace.

The ghosts swarm. They speak as one person. Each has left something undone.

Vain indeed is all overweening pride in the conquest even of the entire universe if one has not conquered one's own passions.