I think, by and large, the level of acting is mediocre. When I go to the theatre, I get so angry. I don't go.

We must overcome the notion that we must be regular... it robs you of the chance to be extraordinary and leads you to the mediocre.

The knowledge that every day there is something more to learn, something higher to reach for, something new to make for others, makes each day infinitely precious

no work of art is ever finished, nothing is ever static, no performance is for keeps.

All tedious research is worth one inspired moment.

To rebel or revolt against the status quo is in the very nature of an artist.

Once in a while, there's stuff that makes me say, That's what theatre's about. It has to be a human event on the stage, and that doesn't happen very often.

One cannot demand of art that it pay you in any other way than in the satisfaction of the work itself.

If you want a bourgeois existence, you shouldn't be an actor. You're in the wrong profession.

Thoughts and feelings are suspended in a vacuum unless they instigate and feed the selected actions, and it is the characters actions which reveal the character in the play.

We were not allowed to say, Screw, but we could say, Hump the hostess, because hump is in Shakespeare.

Hope is imagination of reality.Hope is keeping your dreams alive.

I love autumn", Emily said to me. "It wins you over with its mute appeal to sympathy for its decay.

Every time you tear a leaf off a calendar, you present a new place for new ideas and progress.

To be a mentor for up-and-coming artists is right up my alley.

I was a Clinton Democrat for twenty years.

That which you think today becomes that which you are tomorrow.

Raising or caring for children requires sacrifice and service, which, I believe, heals us from the destructive forces of self-centeredness.

I always loved working in comedy.

I think probably underneath it all, film [Kino] has its own rhythm and its own dynamic, and we were trying to capture the movement of film and cross-reference it with music.

If something pops in my mind and it's easy, I write it.