It is in spending oneself that one becomes rich.

For the theatre one needs long arms... an artiste with short arms can never make a fine gesture.

Permanent success cannot be achieved except by incessant intellectual labour, always inspired by the ideal.

Once the curtain is raised, the actor is ceases to belong to himself. He belongs to his character, to his author, to his public. He must do the impossible to identify himself with the first, not to betray the second, and not to disappoint the third.

What matters poverty? What matters anything to him who is enamoured of our art? Does he not carry in himself every joy and every beauty?

I have often been asked why I am so fond of playing male parts. As a matter of fact, it is not male parts, but male brains that I prefer.

Each action of the actor on the stage should be the visible concomitant of his thoughts.

Oscar Wilde: 'Do you mind if I smoke?' Sarah Bernhardt: 'I don't care if you burn.'

Legend remains victorious in spite of history.

I have, thanks to my travels, added to my stock all the superstitions of other countries. I know them all now, and in any critical moment of my life, they all rise up in armed legions for or against me.

The theatre is the involuntary reflex of the ideas of the crowd.

The actor is too prone to exaggerate his powers; he wants to play Hamlet when his appearance is more suitable to King Lear.

He who is incapable of feeling strong passions, of being shaken by anger, of living in every sense of the word, will never be a good actor.

I do love cricket - it's so very English.

It is in spending oneself that one becomes rich.

I adore Chicago. It is the pulse of America.

Although all new ideas are born in France, they are not readily adopted there. It seems that they must first commence to prosper in a foreign country.

Life begets life. Energy creates energy. It is by spending oneself that one becomes rich.

Your words are my food, your breath my wine. You are everything to me.

To be a good actor... it is necessary to have a firmly tempered soul, to be surprised at nothing, to resume each minute the laborious task that has barely just been finished.

The truth, the absolute truth, is that the chief beauty for the theatre consists in fine bodily proportions.

To be a good actor it is necessary to have a firmly tempered soul, to be surprised at nothing, to resume each minute the laborious task that has barely just been finished.

Your words are my food your breath my wine. You are everything to me.

Life engenders life. Energy creates energy. It is by spending oneself that one becomes rich.

I would never turn down a movie, but at the same time, but my ideal job would be a half-hour sitcom.

I treat the camera like a person - I gaze into it. Photos are a flat thing, and you need to put life into them.

Aunts and nieces, there's something you must know. As time flies and years pass by, their love tends to grow. In the grueling journey of life, when everything else withers away, an aunt and a niece's bond, is something that will always stay

I personally battled with my own body image for years. I used to tell myself, You can't wear anything sleeveless or strapless. And all of a sudden I was like, What if I just didn't send such negative messages to my brain and said, wear it and enjoy it? And now I'm more comfortable in clothes than ever.

A book is kind of like a river; I simply jump in and start swimming.

We need new energy back in Washington.

Don't forget, I was a musician long before I ever met Prince. That's a big difference between me and those other women he's worked with. We operate on the same plane, as equals.

A meticulous virtual copy of the human brain would enable basic research on brain cells and circuits or computer based drug trials.

I think the media loves taking the most absurd clips for a sport that has become congressional politics.

'Billboard' needs to tell the truth, shake things up.

I find writing very difficult. It's hard and it hurts sometimes, and it's scary because of the fear of failure and the very unpleasant feeling that you may have reached the limit of your abilities.

Acting is a whole boatload of fun, but I prefer to do it on my own terms.

I had to leave school at 14 because my father got injured in the mines and I had to support my family. I was an undertaker's assistant, then a plasterer, before doing my military service in the RAF. All the while, I was doing amateur dramatics and dreaming of getting a scholarship to the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School.

No man can be ideally successful until he has found his place. Like a locomotive he is strong on the track, but weak anywhere else.

We are born for synergy, just like the feet, just like the hands, just like the eyes, just like the rows of upper and lower teeth. Working against each other is unnatural, and being annoyed and turning one's back is counterproductive.

I am baffled by men. When they want me, I don't want them; when I want them, they don't want me.

Mendelssohn I consider the first musician of the day; I doff my hat to him as my superior. He plays with everything, especially with the grouping of the instruments in the orchestra, but with such ease, delicacy and art, with such mastery throughout.

Living in New York City, you have to keep trying to do a lot of things.

The ability to delude yourself may be an important survival tool.

God watches over drunks and third baseman.

Catholic fiction of the type we're publishing is stories that we know faithful Catholics will enjoy - stories they can escape with, laugh at, cry with; stories that will enrich their lives.

In T20, you don't have time to get distracted - it's so quick, you have to run around in the field, and while batting, you don't actually think about anything else.

In show business, if you make a mistake, you can do it over again.

The first six years of my career, I got more comments on my weight than on my singing. So I think I became so self-conscious that I started working on it harder.