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.

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 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 not enough to have talent. You have to have a talent for your talent.

Choosing friends based on how much money they have is like betting on a horse because you like its saddle.

Be yourself, don't take anything from anyone, and never let them take you alive.

The biggest lesson I've learned by living abroad for the last four years is the importance of communication.

We need more transparency and accountability in government so that people know how their money is being spent. That means putting budgets online, putting legislation online.

Face it, you hate every single boy on the face of the Earth!" "That's not TRUE, I just hate all these obnoxious, extroverted, pseudo-bohemian art-school losers

Onwards and upwards, and never give your failures a second thought.

My rite of passage into my brave new world, life on the road.

Count your blessings. Be grateful-- you're alive

India has to fight poverty, Pakistan too has to fight poverty, why don't we come together to fight poverty?

The memory of my father is wrapped up in white paper, like sandwiches taken for a day of work. Just as a magician takes towers and rabbits out of his hat, he drew love from his small body.