Acting is in everything but the words.

Life beats down and crushes the soul and art reminds you that you have one.

The actor has to develop his body. The actor has to work on his voice. But the most important thing the actor has to work on is his mind.

The word theatre comes from the Greeks. It means the seeing place. It is the place people come to see the truth about life and the social situation.

When you stand on the stage you must have a sense that you are addressing the whole world, and that what you say is so important the whole world must listen.

You have to do something. If you do something, you become somebody. Even a daffodil does something, has a profession. It gives off scent, professionally.

You have to get beyond your own precious inner experiences.

You'll begin to act when you can forget your technique - when it is so securely inside you that you need not call upon it consciously.

You will only fail to learn if you do not learn from failing.

Actors need a kind of aggression, a kind of inner force. Don't be only one-sided, sweet, nice, good. Get rid of being average. Find the killer in you.

Happy children should not try to be artists. You have to be born with a broken heart and a sense of loneliness inside. I never had a happy moment as a child myself.

God is God. Because he is God, He is worthy of my trust and obedience. I will find rest nowhere but in His holy will that is unspeakably beyond my largest notions of what he is up to.

The play was a great success but the audience was a disaster.

A field of glory is a field for all.

Until we know that death is equal to life, we live in fear.

Where shame is, there is also fear.

...magic was ugly—-a hard bargain with the universe, a calculus of pain.

I think in a country like mine, violence is at the root of all human relations.

I love a red lip - it's such a powerful statement. It exudes confidence and makes for a bold look.

I think movies lost a lot when they went to stereo and five-track sound.

It's terrifying to be the lead. There's a moment of excitement, and then pure terror.