You can't play an emotional condition; you have an emotional condition, and because you have that condition, you try to overcome it with active doings (intentions).

Everything I'm teaching you about acting has one aim only: to fire you up emotionally and behaviorally so that you can give a vivid, involving, and memorable performance.

That's what our work can do: we remind people that things can change, that wounds can heal, that people can be forgiven, and that closed hearts can open again.

Acting represents all that human beings experience, and if you want it to be 'nice,' you will never be a serious communicator of the human experience.

One of the most important things I've learned about acting is that you can't separate how you live your life and how you practice your art.

You're not simply entitled to be an actor - you're not an actor just because you call yourself one - you earn it. You earn it by working.

Acting is a spiritual quest to touch human beings.

I call this book The Intent to Live because great actors don't seem to be acting, they seem to be actually living.

The rules are what make us better.

When my anxiety is really bad, the fast beating of my heart makes my body feel like it rocks back and forth.

Nature is so powerful, so strong. Capturing its essence is not easy - your work becomes a dance with light and the weather. It takes you to a place within yourself.

Sometimes you have to fight with music.

No one has ever been able to control his thinking, although people may tell the story of how they have. I don't let go of my thoughts-I meet them with understanding. Then they let go of me.

Oh, that fighting for peace is like screwing for virginity.

I drink a lot of water and always try to stay hydrated.

Minimalism now is a reaction to what came before. It's absolutely of its time. Music moved into the set theory thing, and moved out of it.

Destiny had a 518 area code..who knew." - Ehlena

People make a lot of jokes about the empty nest. Let me tell you, it is no laughing matter. It is really hard.

Many things are too delicate to be thought; many more, to be spoken.