The greatest piece of acting or music or sculpture or what-have-you always has its roots in the truth of human emotion.

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.

Nobody can love you if you don't love yourself.

I am convinced that "all ladies are not the same". Some have pretty faces, others have beautiful characters. Some have facial make-ups, others have mental make-ups!

This senate was a place where good Representatives went when they died. Thomas Reed

Man who is at the edge of a precipice has always a better chance to understand the universe than a man who is far away from that precipice!

He took it out like a sprinter, and brought it home like a distance swimmer.

The Psalter is the great school of prayer.

May your dreams defy the laws of gravity.

The gospel of Jesus Christ is not limited to a system of beliefs; it is a plan of action.

I've talked to dozens of Chicagoans who will only go off the record in talking about the manufactured mythology.

From the heart, there is no place in America for hatred or acts of prejudice or violence or anti-Semitism.