French actor and director (d. 1994), Birth: 8-9-1910, Death: 22-1-1994
1.
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.
Jean-Louis Barrault
2.
Acting is the ability to keep an audience from coughing.
Jean-Louis Barrault
3.
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.
Jean-Louis Barrault
4.
The theatre has built a whole art round the actor, based on the man and his double - the actor and his character.
