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

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.

Acting is a spiritual quest to touch human beings.

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).

The rules are what make us better.

It turns out that an eerie type of chaos can lurk just behind a facade of order - and yet, deep inside the chaos lurks an even eerier type of order.

Don’t say you’re sorry I have to let you go ….Time will show Sadness will grow …..

The best and biggest gold mine is in between your ears. To find the gold, think deeply and think better.

I don't really wanna know what makes you leave, or when you'll be back.I just wanna know what will make me cry at your arrival.

Living in California adds ten years to a man's life. And those extra ten years I'd like to spend in New York.

The mounted knight is irresistible; he would bore his way through the walls of Babylon.

I was at one time a football wife, and there is a certain level of bonding that happens between women who are the wives of football players.

Life gets boring, someone invents another necessity, and once again we turn the crank on the screwjack of progress hoping that nobody gets screwed.

Perspective - Use It or Lose It. If you turned to this page, you're forgetting that what is going on around you is not reality. Think about that.

Freedom is a muscle...you have to exercise it.