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.

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.

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).

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.

We are not worshipping anyone or anything, we are simply communing with creation.

Be careful mi amor, don't hurt anyone this time." Cordia reminded Jade.

I'm feeling a little delicate.

The first time I got up in front of an audience was terror, abject terror, which continued for another four or five years. There still is, a little bit.

Jesse Jackson was involved in a three-car crash this weekend. I understand that no one was hurt, but I understand that two of the women in the other cars are now pregnant.

Any experience, however, trivial in its first appearance, is capable of assuming an indefinite richness of significance by extending its range of perceived connections.

Even more precious is his Edward writes, I'm always saying that it is not the spirits who are getting it wrong; it's more likely that I am misinterpreting their messages.

What I'm continuing to do is cutting out the equation that wastes the most amount of time - and that is working within the system.

What song is it you want to hear?

The only way I like to see cops given flowers is in a flower pot from a high window.