Neurosis is always a substitute for legitimate suffering.

A psychoneurosis must be understood, ultimately, as the suffering of a soul which has not discovered its meaning.

A 'scream' is always just that - a noise and not music.

Masses are always breeding grounds of psychic epidemics.

The wine of youth does not always clear with advancing years; sometimes it grows turbid.

It was an accident, although I’ve been involved in some kind of theatrical function or other since I was a child – in school, music, athletics. To me, acting is the most logical way for people’s neuroses to manifest themselves, in this great need we all have to express ourselves. To my way of thinking, an actor’s course is set even before he’s out of the cradle.