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Acting is nothing more or less than playing. The idea is to humanize life.

The little man is still a man.

Oh the nerves, the nerves; the mysteries of this machine called man! Oh the little that unhinges it, poor creatures that we are!

When there is pain, there are no words. All pain is the same.

I sometimes think that God in creating man somewhat overestimated his ability.

The understanding of art depends finally upon one’s willingness to extend one’s humanity and one’s knowledge of human life.

The abilities of man must fall short on one side or the other, like too scanty a blanket when you are abed. If you pull it upon your shoulders, your feet are left bare; if you thrust it down to your feet, your shoulders are uncovered.

We conceal it from ourselves in vain – we must always love something. In those matters seemingly removed from love, the feeling is secretly to be found, and man cannot possibly live for a moment without it.

Poets are the sense, philosophers the intelligence of humanity.

Men are only as good as their technical development allows them to be.