Acting is a spiritual quest to touch human beings.

Everything I'm teaching you about acting has one aim only: to fire you up emotionally and behaviorally so that you can give a vivid, involving, and memorable performance.

That's what our work can do: we remind people that things can change, that wounds can heal, that people can be forgiven, and that closed hearts can open again.

Acting represents all that human beings experience, and if you want it to be 'nice,' you will never be a serious communicator of the human experience.

One of the most important things I've learned about acting is that you can't separate how you live your life and how you practice your art.

You're not simply entitled to be an actor - you're not an actor just because you call yourself one - you earn it. You earn it by working.

You can't play an emotional condition; you have an emotional condition, and because you have that condition, you try to overcome it with active doings (intentions).

I call this book The Intent to Live because great actors don't seem to be acting, they seem to be actually living.

The rules are what make us better.

Failure is when you stop trying to do something.So, if you want to succeed.Don't stop trying.

You must transform your confidence in order to transform your body.

My suggestion is that we should first work to ensure the Third World has clean drinking water and sanitation.

I didn't send back any of the royalty checks.

Faith is not the absence of doubt; it is continuing to follow Jesus in the midst of doubt.

It is through madness that we hate an enemy, and think of revenging ourselves; and it is through indolence that we are appeased, and do not revenge ourselves.

You're on CNN. The show that leads into me is puppets making crank phone calls. What is wrong with you?

Perhaps God is not dead; perhaps God himself is mad.

I was just lucky enough to grow up in a time when they actually had drama departments in schools.

Then in 1969, I spent the spring term at Cornell University in New York. The invasion of August 1968 had already happened, but the hardline regime took several months to crack down on dissidents.