When an acting teacher tells a student 'that wasn't honest work' or 'that didn't seem real,' what does this mean? In life, we are rarely 'truthful' o….

Life beats down and crushes the soul and art reminds you that you have one..

It's not enough to have talent. You have to have a talent for your talent..

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..

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..

Life is boring. The weather is boring. Actors must not be boring..

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 ….

The only excuse for not coming to a class or a performance is death..

The play is not in the words, it’s in you!.

Your curse is that you have chosen a form that requires endless study .... It means you have to read, you have to observe, you have to think, so that….

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..

Don’t use your conscious past. Use your creative imagination to create a past that belongs to your character. I don’t want you to be stuck with your ….

You will only fail to learn if you do not learn from failing..

You have to get beyond your own precious inner experiences..

You act with your soul. That's why you all want to be actors, because your souls are not used up by life..

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….

Your talent is in your choice..

Growth as an actor and as a human being are synonymous..

Emotions aren't doable. Actions are doable, and if you do them correctly, they prompt the feelings..

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

Acting is in everything but the words..