An ounce of behavior is worth a pound of words.

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.

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.

She had this way of always finding the good and believing in everything despite all she had seen.

It's--my God--like you stretched a tarp across a stadium to turn it into a giant tom-tom and crashed a 747 into it.

Sometimes I look at you and I just can't believe you're mine

I'm sorry you aren't as brave as you thought you were. But don't punish me because of it.

Nobody values your time but YOU.

[On sociability in Italy:] You may be a hermit or an innkeeper.

The next time they give you all that civic bullshit about voting, keep in mind that Hitler was elected in a full, free democratic election

The industry should take comfort in knowing that WinStar is my main focus after my faith and family.

When you're a mom, you learn about fear. You're always afraid. Always. About everything from cupboard doors to kidnappers to weather.

Our journey is about being more deeply involved in life, and yet less attached to it.