Your job as actors is to understand the size of what you say, to understand what's beneath the word.

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 is pretty hard to tell what does bring happiness

I like cats as much as the next person, in the right quantity.

It is now and in this world that we must live.

You remember some bedrooms you have slept in. There are bedrooms you like to remember and others you would like to forget.

The brave man braves nothing, nor knows he of his bravery.

If I died tomorrow I've accomplished what I set out to do in my life. I enjoy making my movies, I enjoy doing what I do. I have a nice life.

The worst thing about living in this world, in general, is that things get overwhelming, and things cause a tremendous amount of despair and anxiety.

Painting constantly appeared to me as the one and only possible achievement.

As long as we keep learning new music and getting better musically, there's a good chance that the record deal won't change anything.

You have to make rough decisions with sequencing and work within the limitations of having good audio for 15 minutes on a vinyl side.