The theatre infects the audience with its noble ecstasy.

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?

The Bible is a guidebook, leading men [and women] to God in a personal faith. Like a map or guidebook, it will show you the way, but you must take it one step at a time.

Stop making some excuses why you are unhappy with your life, and start finding some reasons why you should be happy with the gift of life that you have.

Sleep is lovely, death is better still, not to have been born is of course the miracle.

The happiness and peace attained by those satisfied by the nectar of spiritual tranquillity is not attained by greedy persons restlessly moving here and there.

Nobody travels on the road to success without a puncture or two.

I have always believed that fame is a curse. I never envied one of the famous people I've known.

I worked very hard. I felt I could play the game. The only thing that could stop me was myself.

Cannery Row in Monterey in California is a poem, a stink, a grating noise, a quality of light, a tone, a habit, a nostalgia, a dream.

Money is in some respects like fire; it is a very excellent servant but a terrible master.

We are all indigenous people on this planet, and we have to reorganize to get along.