You act with your soul. That's why you all want to be actors, because your souls are not used up by life.

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.

We’re stars, you know. Different, distant, young and old, but we’re all made of the same stuff. We all shine just as bright as the next.

Memories establish the past

You don't talk dirty to make him hot. You "talk dirty" to communicate what you need. And most guys, if you go, "Yeah, yeah, just like that, a little more to the left, " they'll do it.

you never know your true genius untill you do what you love

Life is a game, you can't afford to lose.

Imagination without vision, is like a brand with no passion

Freedom of choice is more to be treasured than any possession earth can give.

Thinking about women who can't have their own baby, even the first baby, I'm really lucky.

And I think for me theres a lot of neurosis involved with where you should be or thinking about where you are all the time instead of being where you are.

We tend to seek captivity because we are used to seeing freedom as something that has neither frontiers nor responsibilities.