Vittorio Gassman

“I believe that laziness is an underrated virtue.”

“Depression is a lady in black who knocks at the door. If you invite her in, she will never leave.”

“Old age is a wreck. It leaves you everything, but it no longer lets you use anything.”

“To be an actor, you have to be convinced you are a genius. I, modestly, am.”

“Success is a past participle. It only means that it has happened.”

“The actor does not create, he repeats.”

“Theater is a ceremony. A ritual. It is the only secular ceremony left.”

“Irony is the elegance of intelligence.”

“A comedian can only be a man of the left. The right has no humor.”

“I have always been too much. Too much in love, too much in work, too much in everything.”

“Life is a stage, but with an improvised script.”

“An actor is a liar who is asked to be sincere.”