Actors should be overheard, not listened to, and the audience is 50 percent of the performance

It is so much more difficult to live with one's body than with one's soul. One's body is so much more exacting what it won't have it won't have, and nothing can make bitter into sweet

For an actress to be a success she must have the face of Venus, the brains of Minerva, the grace of Terpsichore, the memory of Macaulay, the figure of Juno, and the hide of a rhinoceros

If you really do want to be an actor who can satisfy himself and his audience, you need to be vulnerable. [You must] reach the emotional and intellectual level of ability where you can go out stark naked, emotionally, in front of an audience

The leader shows that style is no substitute for substance, that creating an impression is more potent than acting from one's center

Acting is nothing more or less than playing. The idea is to humanize life

The mission of the playwright is to look in his heart and write, to write whatever concerns him at the moment to write with passion and conviction. Of course the measure of the man will be the measure of the play

Actors ought to be larger than life. You come across quite enough ordinary, nondescript people in daily life and I don't see why you should be subjected to them on the stage too

Acting is happy agony

Acting is merely the art of keeping a large group of people from coughing