1. “You will only fail to learn if you do not learn from failing.”
2. “When you most succeed, you do so by seeming not to act at all.”
3. “The best author is a dead author, because he’s out of your way and you own the play. Take what he has given you and use it for what you need.”
4. “The theatre is a spiritual and social X-ray of its time.”
5. “The actor must be full of passion. If he’ too cool he’s better off as the manager of a company, not someone who appears on the stage.”
6. “The only excuse for not coming to a class or a performance is death.”
7. “If you can’t take both sides, it means you can only play yourself.”
8. “The ultimate aim of the training is to create an actor who an be responsible for his artistic development and achievement.”
9. “An addict is someone who uses their body to tell society that something is wrong.”
10. “The ideas of the great playwrights are almost always larger than the experiences of even the best actors.”
11. “No actor is a success unless he feels inside himself, as long as he lives, that he is good.”
12. “Acting is everything but the words.”
13. “You have to get beyond your own precious inner experiences.”
14. “The play is not in words, it’s in you!.”
15. “Emotions aren’t doable. Actions are doable and if you do them correctly, they prompt the feelings.”
16. “You cannot afford to confine your studies to the classroom. The universe and all of history is your classroom.”
17. “The most important thing you can teach actors is to understand plays.”
18. “Life beats down and crushes the soul and art remind you that you have one.”
19. “Growth as an actor and as a human being are synonymous.”
20. “The theatre-acting, creating, interpreting – means total involvement, the totality of heart, mind and spirit.”
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