The American actor is very lucky. Why? Because so little is asked of him.

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.

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

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.

I have gradually learned to be cautious even in disbelief

It may be long before the law of love will be recognised in international affairs. The machineries of government stand between and hide the hearts of one people from those of another.

I'm like a good cheese. I'm just getting mouldy enough to be interesting.

Don't be afraid. Human birth is full of suffering and one has to endure everything patiently, taking the Name of God. None, not even God in human form can escape the sufferings of the body and mind.

Positive thinking doesn't guarantee results, all it offers is something better than negative thinking.

Life Among the Savages is a disrespectful memoir of my children.

It is impossible to overlook the extent to which civilization is built upon a renunciation of instinct.

Um, musicians are funnier you know, than actors on the whole.

The habit of giving only enhances the desire to give.

Don't look back until you've written an entire draft.