Never allow yourself externally to portray anything that you have not inwardly experienced and which is not even interesting to you.

All action in theatre must have inner justification, be logical, coherent, and real.

The life of a character should be an unbroken line of events and emotions, but a play only gives us a few moments on that line - we must create the rest to portray a convincing life.

The person you are is a thousand times more interesting than the best actor you could ever hope to be.

Create your own method. Don't depend slavishly on mine. Make up something that will work for you! But keep breaking traditions, I beg you.

The actor must use his imagination to be able to answer all questions (when, where, why, how). Make the make-believer existence more definite.

The language of the body is the key that can unlock the soul.

What is important to me is not the truth outside myself, but the truth within myself.

Play well, or play badly, but play truly.

Who am I? What will I be? Why am I here? Where am I going?

When you're playing a character who's cruel, look for the places where he's kind. When you're playing a character who is unhappy, look for the places where he has a glint of merriment.

Don't hold to anger, hurt or pain. They steal your energy and keep you from love.

Being sixteen forever sounded good until you really thought about it. Then it didn't seem like such a great prospect.

Most personalities have been obliged to be rebels. Half their strength has been wasted in friction.

Any problem can be made clearer with a picture, and any picture can be created using the same set of tools and rules.

Jupiter is slow looking into his notebook but he always looks.

I prefer to write music for family films. I like people.

Every time I get something that's different than the last thing, I get excited. I don't want to play the same thing, every single time.

The value of getting to your goals lives not in reaching the goal but what the talents/strengths/capabilities the journey reveals to you.

I'm not a big internet guy - not because I'm not interested in what people have to say, but probably because I'm too interested.

No, I've been singing forever. I started out doing musicals. I think that was part of the reason why they gave me the part, because I sang.