Without wonder and insight, acting is just a trade. With it, it becomes creation.
If you really do want to be an actor who can satisfy himself and his audience, you need to be vulnerable.
The principal benefit acting has afforded me is the money to pay for my psychoanalysis.
I love acting. It is so much more real than life.
To grasp the full significance of life is the actor's duty, to interpret it is his problem, and to express it his dedication.
Acting is the perfect idiot's profession.
For an actress to be a success, she must have the face of Venus, the brains of a Minerva, the grace of Terpsichore, the memory of a Macaulay, the figure of Juno, and the hide of a rhinoceros.
Honesty isn't enough for me. That becomes very boring. If you can convince people what you're doing is real and it's also bigger than life - that's exciting.
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.
I regard the theatre as the greatest of all art forms, the most immediate way in which a human being can share with another the sense of what it is to be a human being.
Acting is not about being someone different. It's finding the similarity in what is apparently different, then finding myself in there.
I always tell the truth. Even when I lie.
Acting deals with very delicate emotions. It is not putting up a mask. Each time an actor acts he does not hide; he exposes himself.
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.
Acting is a matter of giving away secrets.
I regard the theatre as the greatest of all art forms.
The word theatre comes from the Greeks. It means the seeing place.
The theater has never been any good since the actors became gentlemen.
Find in yourself those human things which are universal.
An ounce of behavior is worth a pound of words.
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