Jean Louis Barrault Inspirational Quotes (5)

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.

Acting is the ability to keep an audience from coughing.

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.