I was truly happy. But my state was not that of any ordinary satisfaction. It was a joy which stemmed directly from creative, artistic achievement.

Every person who is really an artist desires to create inside of himself another, deeper, more interesting life than the one that actually surrounds him.

In the language of an actor, to know is synonymous with to feel

If you are looking for something, don’t go sit on the seashore and expect it to come and find you; you must search, search, search with all the stubbornness in you!

Love art in yourself, not yourself in art.

Love art in yourself, and not yourself in art.

If you have a rifle, hanging on the wall in the first act, it should fire in the last act”.