I've never been one to shortchange the importance of actors.
Growing old is partly an inescapable process of accommodation and adjustment.
Bisexuality is almost a necessary factor in artistic production; at any rate, the tinge of masculinity within me helped me in my work.
Pacifism simply is not a matter of calm looking on; it is work, hard work.
For me the Koenigsberg longshoremen had beauty; the Polish jimkes on their grain ships had beauty; the broad freedom of movement in the gestures of the common people had beauty. Middle-class people held no appeal for me at all.
To this day I do not know whether the power which has inspired my works is something related to religion, or is indeed religion itself.
Men without joy seem like corpses.
Adults end up shading things and shading the truth, and you end up lying and telling people what they want to hear.
We have to recognize that it is a very, very painful thing for people to be exposed to their social community, to be exposed in the world, as not what they would have wanted to be seen as. This is very painful and difficult for people.
Performing is one of the best feelings I know!
He who sleeps without offering the night prayer, may he never enjoy a sound sleep.