When you most succeed, you do so by seeming not to act at all.

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.

It's a little mad, but I believe I am many people. When I am writing a poem, I feel I am the person who should have written it.

My Irish derivation has nothing to do with me. Why should it?

Obamacare is a disaster. You know it. We all know it.

The problem is that I don't want to add another record to the world that is not necessary to be published, except to make some business. There has to be a musical reason.

There's some illogical part of me that still believes if you want Superman to show up, first there's got to be someone worth saving.

By facing our challenges and overcoming them, we grow stronger, wiser, and more compassionate.

So-Youn has good qualities in both jump and power, triple combination is her biggest strength and she also has great artistic value in her skating.

The Bible does not contain the Word of God; It is the Word of God.

I love movies - it's my whole life, and that's it.

Explanations don't comfort. You won't feel better if you know why. It won't hurt any less.