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

“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.”

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

“Legend remains victorious in spite of history.”

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

“What would life be without art? Science prolongs life. To consist of what-eating drinking and sleeping? What is the good of living longer if it is only a matter of satisfying the requirements that sustain life? All this is nothing without the charm of art.”