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"Nervousness means that we are concerned with ourselves rather than with the things we need to do."

"Art is longer than life."

"An actor never plays a speech. He always plays a scene, an event, a situation, an occurence. Words are part of the occurence."

"The human being who acts is the human being who lives."

"Miracles are performed after hard work. Even a saint works very, very hard."

"If we cannot see the possibility of greatness, how can we dream of it?"

"We cannot give you talent, but we are going to force you to live up to the talent that you have."

"The are times when you pick up your shoes and see through them your whole life."

"That is the basic need for art in life, not self-expression, but rather a saying and doing of things we cannot completely say and do in life but which have to be said and done."

"Something secret, the highest truth for every one of the characters - this is the spine."