The theatre is a spiritual and social X-ray of its time.

Life beats down and crushes the soul and art reminds you that you have one.

The actor has to develop his body. The actor has to work on his voice. But the most important thing the actor has to work on is his mind.

The word theatre comes from the Greeks. It means the seeing place. It is the place people come to see the truth about life and the social situation.

When you stand on the stage you must have a sense that you are addressing the whole world, and that what you say is so important the whole world must listen.

You have to do something. If you do something, you become somebody. Even a daffodil does something, has a profession. It gives off scent, professionally.

You have to get beyond your own precious inner experiences.

You'll begin to act when you can forget your technique - when it is so securely inside you that you need not call upon it consciously.

You will only fail to learn if you do not learn from failing.

Actors need a kind of aggression, a kind of inner force. Don't be only one-sided, sweet, nice, good. Get rid of being average. Find the killer in you.

Happy children should not try to be artists. You have to be born with a broken heart and a sense of loneliness inside. I never had a happy moment as a child myself.

If you have realized how powerful a simple act of kindness is, you will never be rude.

There once was a time when all people believed in God and the church ruled. This time was called the Dark Ages.

If I write as well as I golf, I'm in trouble!

Violence is the repartee of the illiterate.

There is no wrong way to have a body.

He's Gandalf on crack and an IV of Red Bull, with a big leather coat and a .44 revolver in his pocket.

Longing is not always a reciprocal thing.

I've had soccer moms come up and tell me they can relate when I say that I want to throw my baby in the trash.

Some people will pay their tuition, and then defy you to give them an education.

Beloved Renegade is a meditation on Walt Whitman, on tenderness, on dying.