Jean-Louis Barrault quotes:

Acting is the ability to keep an audience from coughing.

A classic is like a hidden treasure. Its core is buried under so many layers of varnish that it can be reached only by patience and infiltration.

You have to wake up a virgin each morning.

When I wake up in the morning I want to feel hungry for life. Desire is what drives me. When I go to sleep, I feel I have experienced a small death, so that I can wake up in the morning renewed and reborn.

The theatre has built a whole art round the actor, based on the man and his double - the actor and his character.