“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.”

“Love art in yourself, and not yourself in art.”

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

“In the circle of light on the state in the midst of darkness, you have the sensation of being entirely alone... This is called solitude in public... During a performance, before an audience of thousands, you can always enclose yourself in this circle, like a snail in its shell... You can carry it wherever you go.”

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

“Work like a slave; command like a king; create like a god.”

“The theatre infects the audience with its noble ecstasy.”