Seventy-five percent of great art is hard work only about twenty-five percent is great talent.

Work for the actor lies essentially in two areas: the ability to consistently create reality and the ability to express that reality.

Acting is the most personal of our crafts. The make-up of a human being - his physical, mental and emotional habits - influence his acting to a much greater extent than commonly recognized.

If we cannot see the possibility of greatness, how can we dream it?

The actor creates with his own flesh and blood all those things which all the arts try in some way to describe.

Good health is the most important thing. More than success. More than money. More than power.

The human being who acts is the human being who lives.

Like the Bible, Stanislavsky's basic texts on acting can be quoted to any purpose.

A great actor is independent of the poet, because the supreme essence of feeling does not reside in prose or in verse, but in the accent with which it is delivered.

An actors' tribute to me is in his work.

You are safe with me.""I am not at all safe, with you. But I have no desire to be elsewhere.

Pride grants you a happily never after.

Recommend to your children virtue that alone can make them happy not gold.

We regard those other cultures such as that of India, where many people live and believe and behave much as they did 1000 or 2000 years ago - as "undeveloped".

No one should have to conform to some mythical concept of the ideal family.

If you think about it, a lot of great horror films have bad sequels just because the market demands you to make the other one right away.

I do not believe in inspiration, but I must have a title in order to work, otherwise I am lost

Yet there are thousands of Indigenous people searching for family members.

But you don’t have to give everyone the benefit of the doubt.” “You don’t have to assume the worst about everyone, either. The world isn’t always out to get you.

There's a different use for different strategies.