“The play was a great success, but audience was a dismal failure.”

Doing what needs to be done may not make you happy, but it will make you great.

A man of my spiritual intensity does not eat corpses.

Those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.

He who can, does. He who cannot, teaches.

The happiness of credulity is a cheap and dangerous quality of happiness, and by no means a necessity of life.

You imagine what you desire, you will what you imagine and at last you create what you will.

To be in hell is to drift; to be in heaven is to steer.

I often quote myself. It adds spice to my conversation.

Both optimists and pessimists contribute to society. The optimist invents the aeroplane, the pessimist the parachute.

Do not waste your time on Social Questions. What is the matter with the poor is Poverty what is the matter with the rich is Uselessness.

Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world.

There is no love sincerer than the love of food.

I have my own soul. My own spark of divine fire.

Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance.

Life isn’t about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.

The thought of two thousand people crunching celery at the same time horrified me.

We have to stretch out the audience. It can’t be this narrow – we have to stretch out the point of view.

What audiences love with series is that they can invest in characters for such a long period of time, and it’s the same for actors. You can truly tell your story; then it’s done.

As an actor, it’s very interesting to make the audience love you while you are doing horrendous things.

The whole duty of a writer is to please and satisfy himself, and the true writer always plays to an audience of one.

Everyone seems to have internalized the fact that you can say anything you want at a televised debate, and only a tiny fraction of the audience will ever see a fact-check. So why not claim the moon is square?

But theater, because of its nature, both text, images, multimedia effects, has a wider base of communication with an audience. That’s why I call it the most social of the various art forms.

I always want to win because I never want to sit out on the sidelines outside.

It’s kind of a hybrid, half movie, half play, presented in a proscenium fashion – the camera’s on one side of the line, the set on the other, the audience sitting behind the cameras.