Acting is behaving truthfully under imaginary circumstances.

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

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

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

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 you.

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

An ounce of behavior is worth a pound of words.

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 opera audition.

The truth of ourselves is the root of our acting.

That which hinders your task is your task.

Courage means willing to risk everything.

Fear, if not accompanied by pain, turns into a habit

CharityIn charity lies happiness and bliss, If you haven’t done charity, you may miss, The power to love and share, Charity gives you happiness beyond compare.

Like the crow among mankind are the Zanj [African Blacks] for they are the worst of men and the most vicious of creatures in character and temperament.

Art is two things: a search for a road and a search for freedom.

The very beating of your heart has meaning and purpose. Your actions have value far greater than silver or gold.

I like spoken-word as much as the singing word.

We lunched and dined in crowded restaurants. We were always alone.

Reason is afraid of defeat, But intuition enjoys challenges

Apprentices and servants are characters perfectly distinct: the one receives instruction, the other a stipulated price for his labour.

Yogi Bear was a real moment in my life. Post-Yogi Bear: don't drink as much. Pre-Yogi Bear: like to drink much.