The greatest wisdom is to realize one's lack of it.

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Love the art in yourself and not yourself in the art.

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Unless the theatre can ennoble you, make you a better person, you should flee from it.

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Talent is nothing but a prolonged period of attention and a shortened period of mental assimilation.

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Create your own method. Don't depend slavishly on mine. Make up something that will work for you! But keep breaking traditions, I beg you.

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The main factor in any form of creativeness is the life of a human spirit, that of the actor and his part, their joint feelings and subconscious creation.

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Our demands are simple, normal, and therefore they are difficult to satisfy. All we ask is that an actor on the stage live in accordance with natural laws.

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We have as many planes of speech as does a painting planes of perspective which create perspective in a phrase. The most important word stands out most vividly defined in the very foreground of the sound plane. Less important words create a series of deeper planes.

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