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

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.

Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding.

The perfect surrender and humiliation were undergone by Christ: perfect because He was God, surrender and humiliation because He was man.

Friends will not only live in harmony but in melody.

There's only so much you can teach a person until you reach the limits of his capabilities.

I'm not as big a soccer fan as people might imagine, being British.

If I don't channel pain into a song, I play my guitar or play the piano or play my drums, or go swimming.

What people see on court is another side of me; it's not me.

Look, Rose. You don't have to keep up with the hard-to-get thing. You already got me.

My character is self-important, poorly informed, well-intentioned but an idiot. So we said, 'Let's give him a promotion.'

I talk to our players about life and situations and doing the right thing all the time.