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

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

Acting is behaving truthfully under imaginary circumstances.

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.

Though wrong gratifies in the moment, good yields its gifts over a lifetime.

...I wondered why so much had been written about love's pain and so little about the glorious relief of being delivered from love's pain.

I am thinking of our family's womenas faraway bulbs, their historywith crippling loss, and how I am pieced together, shell and sand, from the spine of their collective strength.

It paid barely a living wage, but he stayed with it—gradually and in the end gratefully arriving at the point in life when you understand there are no great changes ahead.

If we go on the way we have, the fault is our greed and if we are not willing to change, we will disappear from the face of the globe, to be replaced by the insect.

Our lives can change with every breath we take.

I think in a way, what it is to be human is to transcend our boundaries. That is the human story.

My family has always called me 'Lay Lay,' and my dad used to always call me 'Dynamite Termite' because I was really short and small and I hated to be still. I would never stop.

The world is slowly evolving into a place where the things that we have seen as being taboo are starting to open up a bit more.

Me and Penny are going to be the Kareem and Magic of the '90s.