Courage means willing to risk everything..

Transfer the point of concentration to some object outside of yourself - another person, a puzzle, a broken plate that you are gluing..

Listen with your gut, not your head..

If you want to reach every person in the audience, it's not about being bigger, it's about going deeper..

Life beats down and crushes our souls and theatre reminds us that we have one. At least the type of theatre that I'm interested in; that is, theatre ….

I'll tell you this: you cannot escape the impact of emotion, whether it's in a big theater or a tiny one. If you have it, it inflates you — correctio….

You know it's all right to be wrong, but it's not all right not to try..

Acting in a scene is like paddling a canoe from a pebbly beach on to the river, the writer builds the canoe, and the actor provides the river. The ri….

You don't pick up cues, you pick up impulses..

That which hinders your task is your task..

Silence has a myriad of meanings. In the theater, silence is an absence of words, but never an absence of meaning..

Acting is behaving truthfully under imaginary circumstances..

WHY is the most important word in an actor's vocabulary..

Don't be an actor. Be a human being who works off what exists under imaginary circumstances..

Acting is the ability to live truthfully under the given imaginary circumstances.

The greatest piece of acting or music or sculpture or what-have-you always has its roots in the truth of human emotion..

You can't learn to act unless you're criticized. If you tie that criticism to your childhood insecurities you'll have a terrible time. Instead, you m….

Being an actor is a religious calling because you've been given the ability, the gift to inspire humanity. Think about that on the way to your soap o….

Act before you think - your instincts are more honest than your thoughts..

Your acting will not be good until it is only yours. That's true of music, acting, anything creative. You work until finally nobody is acting like yo….

The truth of ourselves is the root of our acting..