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.

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.

Acting is a spiritual quest to touch human beings.

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).

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.

No man's life, liberty, or property are safe while the legislature is in session.

This is a girl you can’t keep. You aren’t allowed to.

The low profile of a man does not mean he is nobody

The whole purpose of existence is to bring love into existence where it is needed.

Obscenity is our name for the uneasiness which upsets the physical state associated with self-possession, with the possession of a recognized and stable individuality.

If Obama was a white man, he would not be in this position.

Challenges met are the scariest but are sometimes the most worthwhile.

We can spend our whole lives escaping from the monsters of our minds. (36)

With our sense of self out of the the way we are liberated from doubt and insecurity.

We learn resignation not by our own suffering, but by the suffering of others.