Being in your element is not only about aptitude, it's about passion: it is about loving what you do. . . tapping into your natural energy and your most authentic self.
The theater is a school we shall never have done with studying and learning.
A stage setting is not a background; it is an environment.
There is no more reason for a room on a stage to be a reproduction of an actual room than for an actor who plays the part of Napoleon to be Napoleon, or for an actor who plays Death in the old morality play to be dead.
The sole aim of the arts of scene-designing, costuming, lighting, is to enhance the natural powers of the actor.
Realism is something we practice when we aren't feeling very well. When we don't feel up to the extra effort.
We have learned that beneath the surface of an ordinary everyday normal casual conscious existence there lies a vast dynamic world of impulse and dream, a hinterland of energy which has an independent existence of its own and laws of its own: laws which motivate all our thoughts and our actions.
You can tell how nervous I am by how fast I am talking!
I did something wrong -- once.
Obviously this is the next frontier - once you've mastered grilling, smoking is what you're going to want to do.
From desire I plunge to its fulfilment, where I long once more for desire.