Everything I'm teaching you about acting has one aim only: to fire you up emotionally and behaviorally so that you can give a vivid, involving, and memorable performance.

That's what our work can do: we remind people that things can change, that wounds can heal, that people can be forgiven, and that closed hearts can open again.

Acting represents all that human beings experience, and if you want it to be 'nice,' you will never be a serious communicator of the human experience.

One of the most important things I've learned about acting is that you can't separate how you live your life and how you practice your art.

You're not simply entitled to be an actor - you're not an actor just because you call yourself one - you earn it. You earn it by working.

Acting is a spiritual quest to touch human beings.

You can't play an emotional condition; you have an emotional condition, and because you have that condition, you try to overcome it with active doings (intentions).

I call this book The Intent to Live because great actors don't seem to be acting, they seem to be actually living.

The rules are what make us better.

Failure opens the door to the most powerful lessons and discoveries – but it does so only if you have the courage to accept reality and look failure in the eye.

Prayer, divine act.Pray always.

Live, Die, Kill but don't complain!

Why has no religion this command before all others: Thou shalt work?

Just telling a story. That's cinema. It's not silent, black and white. It's a simple story that's well made.

A few hundred years ago there were no differences between magic and medicine.

People may have too much of a good thing: Full as an egg of wisdom thus I sing.

We're living in post-nuance online times.

It is better to be good than to be original.

Even in the most perfect love one person loves less profoundly than the other.