Fortune and love favor the brave. It is odd but agitation or contest of any kind gives a rebound to my spirits and sets me up for a time. The rich are always advising the poor, but the poor seldom return the compliment. Nature, time and patience are the three great physicians. To grasp the full significance of life is the actor's duty, to interpret it is his problem, and to express it his dedication. We are only falsehood, duplicity, contradiction we both conceal and disguise ourselves from ourselves. Everybody, soon or late, sits down to a banquet of consequences. It is he who has broken the bond of marriage -- not I. I only break its bondage. The average estimate themselves by what they do, the above average by what they are. When a nation's young men are conservative, its funeral bell is already rung. Divorce is a game played by lawyers. We know better than we do. We do not yet possess ourselves... 'Tis God gives skill, but not without men's hand: He could not make Antonio Stradivarius's violins without Antonio. Acting is happy agony.
