Just to travel is rather boring, but to travel with a purpose is educational and exciting.

When I tried to play characters that strayed from who I am it ended in disaster. People didn't expect me in comedies or musicals.

One of the great currents in the contemporary experience of art is that it seems to come out of the experience of the author.

It always makes me sad when I think of how I saw Wagner wasting his vitality, not only by singing their parts to some of his artists, but acting out the smallest details, and of how few they were who were responsive to his wishes.