"Permanent success cannot be achieved except by incessant intellectual labour, always inspired by the ideal."

"He who is incapable of feeling strong passions, of being shaken by anger, of living in every sense of the word, will never be a good actor."

"The truth, the absolute truth, is that the chief beauty for the theatre consists in fine bodily proportions."

"What matters poverty? What matters anything to him who is enamoured of our art? Does he not carry in himself every joy and every beauty?"

"I was born with music inside me. Music was one of my parts. Like my ribs, my kidneys, my liver, my heart. Like my blood. It was a force already within me when I arrived on the scene. It was a necessity for me-like food or water."

"My interesting diet tips are eat early and don't nosh between meals. I mean, I can pack it away."

"I try and eat really healthy when I'm home, but I certainly don't eat worms and snakes."

"I hid myself in food."