An addict is someone who uses their body to tell society that something is wrong.

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

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.

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.

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 listen.

You have to do something. If you do something, you become somebody. Even a daffodil does something, has a profession. It gives off scent, professionally.

You have to get beyond your own precious inner experiences.

You'll begin to act when you can forget your technique - when it is so securely inside you that you need not call upon it consciously.

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

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.

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 a child myself.

The greatest mistake we can make is to stay on the ground after falling.

The only way to tell the truth is to speak with kindness. Only the words of a loving man can be heard

Doctors are great--as long as you don't need them.

Hate is perhaps the most dynamic of all emotions - fear may immobilize, love may stay the hand, but hate urges to action.

I believe the United States should make the protection of Syrian civilians from war crimes and crimes against humanity a higher priority.

Now I don't want to feel cornered as an actor, because I've got a wider range than that.

Only one man has the right to boast, and that's the man who never does.

Any man who looks like a sissy while dancing is just a lousy dancer.

It took me years after stopping the cocaine before I was able to enjoy a sunrise and enjoy the sound of birds.

None of the parties want this conflict to go on.