You'll never see any two good actors approach a role in the same way.

All action in theatre must have inner justification, be logical, coherent, and real.

The life of a character should be an unbroken line of events and emotions, but a play only gives us a few moments on that line - we must create the rest to portray a convincing life.

The person you are is a thousand times more interesting than the best actor you could ever hope to be.

Create your own method. Don't depend slavishly on mine. Make up something that will work for you! But keep breaking traditions, I beg you.

The actor must use his imagination to be able to answer all questions (when, where, why, how). Make the make-believer existence more definite.

The language of the body is the key that can unlock the soul.

What is important to me is not the truth outside myself, but the truth within myself.

Play well, or play badly, but play truly.

Never allow yourself externally to portray anything that you have not inwardly experienced and which is not even interesting to you.

Who am I? What will I be? Why am I here? Where am I going?

Maybe pulling her emotions out and inserting in his logic would change this morbid course. But damn if he’d joke about it like she did.

I cannot pretend I am without fear. But my predominant feeling is one of gratitude.

As a woman, we should all stop talking about it and just acknowledge what's happened and act like we own the space, because we do.

Everyone is so attached to someone having a spat with another celebrity. It overshadows the good people do.

We take care of illegal immigrants, people that come into the country illegally, better than we take care of our vets. That can't happen.

My mother has all my awards, because if I walked downstairs every day and saw all my achievements it would be so easy to become complacent.

Charity that does not change the situation of the poor isn't enough.

Maybe I was in love, but I was still me, after all.

I like working with fish, so naturally I like seafood.

Now is the accepted time, not tomorrow, not some more convenient season. It is today that our best work can be done.