Transfer the point of concentration to some object outside of yourself - another person, a puzzle, a broken plate that you are gluing.

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.

After self-love the second best gift you could ever give yourself is self-discipline.

You stumble upon an unhappy Martian sentry on a mission and shoot ineffectually at his powersuit a few times before he pulps you with his laserbeam eyes and hideous poisonous-gas breath. Glory!

I'm asking God to give you a Popeye moment. A moment when God blesses you with a divine burden: something that bothers you so deeply, you're moved from complacency to action.

I find a certain degree of loneliness not only tolerable but deeply pleasurable.

It matters not how a man dies, but how he lives. The act of dying is not of importance, it lasts so short a time.

The self-confidence one builds from achieving difficult things and accomplishing goals is the most beautiful thing of all.

People are really much more respectful than they're made out to be and much more discerning about the fact that I'm not the character I play.

I know what happens every time I get in front of a UK crowd - they just go nuts and they are so nice and excited and crazy and they won't sit down.

It's very important, who has the most delegates. The superdelegates should not be the ones making the decision.

Tomato and lettuce-especially lettuce-is an abomination.