Occupation: Actor Birth: August 31, 1905 Death: February 2, 1997
Every little moment has a meaning all its own..
You don't pick up cues, you pick up impulses..
An ounce of behavior is worth a pound of words..
The only way to deal with yourself as an actor is to follow the emotional truth of what you have to do under the imaginary circumstances. And as you ….
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….
Acting is the ability to live truthfully under the given imaginary circumstances.
Act before you think - your instincts are more honest than your thoughts..
The greatest piece of acting or music or sculpture or what-have-you always has its roots in the truth of human emotion..
Acting is behaving truthfully under imaginary circumstances..
With a developed imagination there's no place you can't go..
Silence has a myriad of meanings. In the theater, silence is an absence of words, but never an absence of meaning..
Listen with your gut, not your head..
Transfer the point of concentration to some object outside of yourself - another person, a puzzle, a broken plate that you are gluing..
Courage means willing to risk everything..
That which hinders your task is your task..
You know it's all right to be wrong, but it's not all right not to try..
If you want to reach every person in the audience, it's not about being bigger, it's about going deeper..
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….
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..
The truth of ourselves is the root of our acting..