You must be so thoroughly immersed in the given circumstances of the play, then you decide what it is at any given moment what that the actor wants.

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?

Real life is sometimes boring, rarely conclusive and boy, does the dialogue need work.

People wish for good dreams I wish people don't dream of me.

Children are simultaneously required to constitute themselves as autonomous subjects, responsible, free and conscious, and to constitute themselves as submissive, inert, obedient, conforming objects.

A perfect summer day is when the sun is shining, the breeze is blowing, the birds are singing, and the lawn mower is broken.

It is important to give, not only to those closer to us, also to our enemies.

When even despair ceases to serve any creative purpose, then surely we are justified in suicide.

I don't know why I still find it so hard to accept that words are faulty and by their very nature innacurate

Walking is the exact balance between spirit and humility.

I'm doing music that I like and that I hope other people will like too.

If, with the nation watching, three black women at three different levels can't get justice... for this community, you tell me where you're going to get it in our country.