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To grasp the full significance of life is the actor's duty; to interpret it his problem; and to express it his dedication.

An actor must interpret life, and in order to do so must be willing to accept all the experiences life has to offer. In fact, he must seek out more of life than life puts at his feet.

If you take every challenge everyone has in their life and multiply it in severity you get what it's like in the life of an actor.

As actors, we are so privileged to do what we do and to give to the world and to choose the subject we want to say to the world.

Our obligation is to give meaning to life and in doing so to overcome the passive, indifferent life.

Our ability to handle life's challenges is a measure of our strength of character.

Being an actor is a matter of choice that, above all, takes place at an existential level: either you express the conservative structures of society and are nothing more that a tool in the hands of power, or you address the progressive components of this society in an attempt to settle a revolutionary relation between art and life.

The affairs of life embrace a multitude of interests, and he who reasons in any one of them, without consulting the rest, is a visionary unsuited to control the business of the world.

You're creating a different world and the actor's job is to be able to convince the audience to enter into that world, whether it be actually something that you recognize from your own life or not.

Ultimately, man should not ask what the meaning of his life is, but rather he must recognize that it is he who is asked.