All tedious research is worth one inspired moment.

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I have disassociated myself from that book.

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Talent is an amalgam of high sensitivity; easy vulnerability; high sensory equipment (seeing, hearing, touching, smelling, tasting intensely); a vivid imagination as well as a grip on reality; the desire to communicate one's own experience and sensations, to make one's self heard and seen.

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We were not allowed to say, Screw, but we could say, Hump the hostess, because hump is in Shakespeare.

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To rebel or revolt against the status quo is in the very nature of an artist.

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We must overcome the notion that we must be regular... it robs you of the chance to be extraordinary and leads you to the mediocre.

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If you want a bourgeois existence, you shouldn't be an actor. You're in the wrong profession.

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It must be noted that it is often the colleague or direct disciple of a new thinker who gets stuck in literal interpretations of the work, tending to freeze the new ideas and language into an inflexible, static condition.

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The need to be loved and protected is at a peak when we feel abandoned and are particularly vulnerable to difficult circumstances.

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Theoretically, the actor ought to be more sound in mind and body than other people, since he learns to understand the psychological problems of human beings when putting his own passions, his loves, fears, and rages to work in the service of the characters he plays. He will learn to face himself, to hide nothing from himself- and to do so takes AN INSATIABLE CURIOSITY ABOUT THE HUMAN CONDITION

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