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

You have to wake up a virgin each morning.

- Jean-Louis Barrault

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

- Jean-Louis Barrault

Acting is the ability to keep an audience from coughing.

- Jean-Louis Barrault

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, …

- Jean-Louis Barrault