Theater

“I do not consider myself some sort of acting legend, but just an actor doing his best with the material that is there at the time.”

“When I am not on stage, I am a very serious person.”

“Acting is just a job. You do it well and you will be rewarded.”

“Only by wonderful technique do you disguise technique.”

“She is, in fact, an enchanting actress.”

“I want to be called a writer before anything else, before an actor, before a comedian.”

“Ser actor es más un instinto humano que una profesión.”

“Acting and singing are my life.”

“If I had any ambition, it was to keep putting “actor” on my tax form.”

“Theater is the initial glamorizer of thought.”

“Sou actor desde 1856. Dizem que faço rir na comedia, chorar no drama e finjo de tenor nas operetas.”

“U nas jest inaczej – aktor to człowiek, który ma swój normalny, przeciętny los, ale może wypowiedzieć to, czego słowa owej wewnętrznej treści nigdy nie wyrażą, stając twarzą w twarz do twarzy podobnej.”

“If it ain't on the page, it ain't on the stage. It's that simple.”

“Damn everything but the circus!”

“From the moment you get on a theater stage, from the moment you go up there, on this stage, you become a poem.”

“Opera is for a lifetime, not just a minute.”

“هذه بروفة للموت، عموماً الموت علينا حق”

“Cuando estoy en escena ni veo nada. Sólo pienso en la canción que interpreto y me hundo, me entrego, me olvido, vuelvo a vivir mis cosas.”