All you need is love.
When you stand on the stage you must have a sense that you are addressing the whole world, and that what you say is so important the whole world must listen.
You have to do something. If you do something, you become somebody. Even a daffodil does something, has a profession. It gives off scent, professionally.
Life is boring. The weather is boring. Actors must not be boring.
The theatre-acting, creating, interpreting - means total involvement, the totality of heart, mind and spirit.
Be innocent, wise and ninety-five.
You have to get beyond your own precious inner experiences. The actor cannot afford to look only to his own life for all his material nor pull strictly from his own experience to find his acting choices and feelings. The ideas of the great playwrights are almost always larger than the experiences of even the best actors.
We are not altogether here to tolerate. We are here to resist, to control and vanquish withal.
As soon as somebody demonstrates the art of flying, settlers from our species of man will not be lacking [on the Moon and Jupiter]. . . . Who would have believed that a huge ocean could be crossed more peacefully and safely than the the narrow expanse of the Adriatic, the Baltic Sea or the English Channel? Provide ship or sails adapted to the heavenly breezes, and there will be some who will not fear even that void [of space]. . . . So, for those who will come shortly to attempt this journey, let us establish the astronomy: Galileo, you of Jupiter, I of the Moon.
Facing facts is always empowering.
Any industry loses its innovation and loses its access to creative juices if you don't have progressive thinking and diversity.