Toni Servillo Quotes

#1. Acting requires a lot of discipline to go with the obsession. It's a path of knowledge, and of self-knowledge. Sometimes you get lost on the path. And then you find yourself again.

Toni Servillo

#2. A solid theatrical education can only improve a screen performance. It gives you a fuller capacity to read a script and understand a character, for one thing. It's important to alternate between the two activities.

Toni Servillo

#3. Directors are denied a great pleasure, which is that of being on stage.

Toni Servillo

#4. Politicians in Italy seem to spend so much time giving interviews, they don't have time to make the laws.

Toni Servillo

#5. Each single gesture of art must be daring. One must not be concerned with the side-effects.

Toni Servillo

#6. Opera is musical theatre, and the music can teach you so much about the theatre. Very often I use musical terms to think about how I comport myself on stage: I employ 'rubati,' 'ostinati,' 'cadenze.' Finding these parallels is very fascinating for me.

Toni Servillo

#7. Neapolitans are extremely empathetic, whereas the typical northern attitude is more about not showing or sharing your feelings.

Toni Servillo