We are adjusters. We empathize, we change rhythm and above all we listen to our fellow actors-if they're good actors.

If I were to play somebody who ran a fish and chip shop, I would not work in a fish and chip shop for three months. Staring at chips is not going to help me in my performance.

I think the cinema you like has more to do with silence, and the theater you like has more to do with language.

One of the greatest things drama can do, at it's best, is to redefine the words we use every day such as love, home, family, loyalty and envy. Tragedy need not be a downer.

Family is family over the internet, over Skype, over the telephone. Love is love. You don't have to actually go through some ritual to prove that you love somebody.

Fifteen years before I became a screen actor, I was in the theatre. A lot of my work was comedy, which I loved doing. It's harder.

With narration, you have to be very accurate with your voice. It's a good exercise to do.

Equal partners aren't always what we envision as being manifestly equal. Equality can come in many different shapes and sizes and combinations.

I do remember, as a child, that I always imagined, when I was maybe 6 or 7, my fantasy was that everywhere I went I was being followed by an invisible film crew.

They're a very strange lot actors, very strange people.

You cannot learn a lesson of profound forgiveness unless you understand what it is to be wounded and forgive that which has wounded you.

In the natural equation (Natural Society) freedom, is but the only element of equality commonly shared by all species".

Man is the only 150 pound nonlinear servomechanism that can be wholly reproduced by unskilled labor.

It's against type in the sense of my background, but it's with type in the sense that I am a loner who's new to this business and sceptical about a lot of it.

Leadership of a world-economy is an experience of power which may blind the victor to the march of history.

Maybe you should just press the button

God is the place of spirits, as spaces are the places of bodies.

I'm really proud ofGunsmoke. We put on a good show every week-one that families could all watch together without offending anyone.

Love affairs are for emotional sprinters; the pleasures of love are for the emotional marathoners.

To bear defeat with dignity, to accept criticism with poise, to receive honors with humility - these are marks of maturity and graciousness.

Mose Allison is a beautiful musician.