One must love art, and not one’s self in art. Today Hamlet, tomorrow a supernumerary, but even as a supernumerary you must become an artist. The poet, the actor, the artist, the tailor, the stagehand serve one goal, which is placed by the poet in the very basis of his play. All disobedience to the creative life of the theater is a crime. Lateness, laziness, caprice, hysterics, bad character, ignorance of the role, the necessity of repeating anything twice are all equally harmful to our enterprise and must be rooted out. There are no small parts, there are only small actors.
