If we cannot see the possibility of greatness, how can we dream it?

Work for the actor lies essentially in two areas: the ability to consistently create reality and the ability to express that reality.

Seventy-five percent of great art is hard work only about twenty-five percent is great talent.

Acting is the most personal of our crafts. The make-up of a human being - his physical, mental and emotional habits - influence his acting to a much greater extent than commonly recognized.

The actor creates with his own flesh and blood all those things which all the arts try in some way to describe.

Good health is the most important thing. More than success. More than money. More than power.

The human being who acts is the human being who lives.

Like the Bible, Stanislavsky's basic texts on acting can be quoted to any purpose.

A great actor is independent of the poet, because the supreme essence of feeling does not reside in prose or in verse, but in the accent with which it is delivered.

An actors' tribute to me is in his work.

Reading makes me feel like I've lived a thousand lives in addition to my own.

Love is the fruit of a sacred-soul.

The Democratic party of Florida has put a temperance plank in its platform and the Republican party of every state would nail that plank in their platform if they thought it would carry the election.

That's what happens when you love someone... you notice and notice and notice.

Well, I guess I am about the livest dead man you ever saw; although I was once asked to accept a coffin.

......so called “composition” becomes a personal thing, to be developed along with technique, as a personal way of seeing.

I'm not the poorest president. The poorest is the one who needs a lot to live.

Now I have something. In fact, I have posted on the Internet more than Obama has. My birth certificate actually has signatures.

As you stopped to say hello, oh, you wished me well, you couldn't tell that I'd been crying over you.

If you're thinking something good about your players, say it; don't save it for later.