This feeling of power, it’s happiness to sit in a cottage by the Danube among six women who think I’m semi-idiot, and to know that in Paris, the headquarters of intelligence, 500 people are sitting...

My whole family is very artistic – my uncles are all actors and theatre directors.

What are all the thoughts rattling in your mind when you’re not listening to the answers to questions you ask?” -Jo, Boom

God is fucking stealing souls again!

A theatre is the most important sort of house in the world because that’s where people are shown what they could be if they wanted and what they’d like to be if they dared to...

Judi Dench and Ian McKellen taught me how to work hard and respect the theatre.

So always avoid banality. That is, avoid illustrating the author’s words and remarks. If you want to create a true masterpiece you must always avoid beautiful lies: the truths on the calender under each date...

Tell yourself that the world is outside, that it’s not to be hidden from you, that you are going to thrust yourself forward and be relaxed in the world. You have chosen a field where...

This was awkward to infinity. Alex living here would change my entire routine. I was sharing a bathroom with my boyfriend. How scary was that? I had tampons and pads and everything in there. He...

When I was young, my mum was part of a brilliant puppet theatre that toured all over the world.

The theatre is a tragic place, full of endings and partings and heartbreak. You dedicate yourself passionately to something, to a project, to people, to a family, you think of nothing else for weeks and...

I long for the simplicity of theatre. I want lessons learned, comeuppances delivered, people sorted out, all before your bladder gets distractingly full. That’s what I want. What I know is what we all know,...

Acting requires a creative and compassionate attitude. It must aim to lift life up to a higher level of meaning and not tear it down or demean it. The actor’s search is a generous quest...

Music blows lyrics up very quickly, and suddenly they become more than art. They become pompous and they become self-conscious … I firmly believe that lyrics have to breathe and give the audience’s ear a...

The earth is an orbiting speck in incomprehensible vastness. The histories of our civilizations, our accomplishments and secrets, great good and evil—these are no more significant than the single twinkle of a star. Perhaps, this...

Love art in yourself, and not yourself in art.

I am a huge theatre geek.

I went into musical theatre, which I’m not really cut out for – I’m not as skilled at it as other people.

We’re actors — we’re the opposite of people!

I began modeling in N.Y. and doing commercials. That led to regional theatre and then Broadway and then movies.

The only theatre I do is my own. Somehow, my life is the only life that I can play.

You’ll never really be great unless you aim high.

The first few weeks of school were always surreal, like you landed on an alien planet with strange teachers and unfamiliar classrooms, even though the lockers and cafeteria seemed familiar.

Que les poètes morts laissent la place aux autres. Et nous pourrions tout de même voir que c’est notre vénération devant ce qui a été déjà fait, si beau et si valable que ce soit,...

The theatre is an attack on mankind carried on by magic: to victimize an audience every night, to make them laugh and cry and suffer and miss their trains. Of course actors regard audiences as...

The stage is a magic circle where only the most real things happen, a neutral territory outside the jurisdiction of Fate where stars may be crossed with impunity. A truer and more real place does...

The trick to loneliness is to spend a lot of time inside one’s head.

All the world’s a stage,And all the men and women merely players;They have their exits and their entrances,And one man in his time plays many parts,His acts being seven ages. At first, the infant,Mewling and...

I was hungry when I left Pyongyang. I wasn’t hungry just for a bookshop that sold books that weren’t about Fat Man and Little Boy. I wasn’t ravenous just for a newspaper that had no...

Love art in yourself, not yourself in art.

To enter a theatre for a performance is to be inducted into a magical space, to be ushered into the sacred arena of the imagination.

My introduction to acting was through theatre, so I actually saw a couple of Broadway shows that made me want to be an actor.

We do on stage things that are supposed to happen off. Which is a kind of integrity, if you look on every exit as being an entrance somewhere else.

You never get anywhere until you figure out the difference between passion and compassion.

I did my New York debut at 21. It was ‘On the Town’ at the George Gershwin Theatre. New York is my artistic home.

You have to understand your best. Your best isn’t Barrymore’s best or Olivier’s best or my best, but your own. Every person has his norm. And in that norm every person is a star. Olivier...

Gus is the Cat at the Theatre Door.His name, as I ought to have told you before,Is really Asparagus. That’s such a fussTo pronounce, that we usually call him just Gus.His coat’s very shabby, he’s...

I coach young people. I have a group called BTP – Broadway Theatre Project.

Et voilà. Maintenant le ressort est bandé. Cela n’a plus qu’à se dérouler tout seul. C’est cela qui est commode dans la tragédie. On donne le petit coup de pouce pour que cela démarre, rien,...

When you step from the wings onto the stage you go from total blackness to a blinding hot glare. After a moment you adjust, but there is that moment. like being inside lightning.

It is growing cold. Winter is putting footsteps in the meadow. What whiteness boasts that sun that comes into this wood! One would say milk-colored maidens are dancing on the petals of orchids. How coldly...

All the world’s a stage.