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.

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.

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.

I never hated a man enough to give him his diamonds back.

I believe our clever young man has intuited that while only the pursuit of happiness is promised to all Americans, unhappiness is guaranteed for many.

You think it's impossible to be a passive fighter? Well, sometimes fighting just means existing. Existing, not going away, and quietly biding your time.

I will get a loan and pay the money the court asks for. But I will not lay down my writing and I still say this was an important book to write.

If it's worth doing, it's worth overdoing.

I'm not really a guy who wants to be a director, anyway.

As actors, we want to challenges ourselves and put ourselves in different situations to see how we react and deliver a performance.

The reason most comedies don't win awards is that the filmmakers put the comedy first. This means you have to create a story around the jokes.

Some [people] are really smart. You know who you are. Some [people] are really thick. Unfortunately, you don't know who you are.

Nature has given us this for free, it was meant to sustain us, we will not allow it to become a monopoly to finance the Imperial Army.