“I think I'm an actor because I have very strong imagination and empathy. I never studied acting, but those two qualities are exactly the qualities that make for an activist.”
“I believe empathy is the most essential quality of civilization.”
“I can't make you understand because you don't know the meaning of fear. You have the heart of a lion and an utter lack of imagination and I envy you both of those qualities. You'll never mind facing realities and you'll never want to escape from them as I do.”
“I'm not full of virtues and noble qualities. I love, but I love strongly, exclusive, stedfasty.”
“I think that the most necessary quality for any person to have is imagination. It makes people able to put themselves in other people's places. It makes them kind and sympathetic and understanding.”
“I am really only myself when I'm somebody else whom I have endowed with these wonderful qualities from my imagination.”