The only excuse for not coming to a class or a performance is death.

The play is not in the words, it’s in you!

One way we can enliven the imagination is to push it toward the illogical. We're not scientists. We don't always have to make the logical, reasonable leap.

Life is boring. The weather is boring. Actors must not be boring.

Your talent is in your choice.

It's not enough to have talent. You have to have a talent for your talent.

Your job as actors is to understand the size of what you say, to understand what's beneath the word.

You have to get beyond your own precious inner experiences.

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

Emotions aren't doable. Actions are doable, and if you do them correctly, they prompt the feelings.

You will only fail to learn if you do not learn from failing.

Growth as an actor and as a human being are synonymous.

Life beats down and crushes the soul and art reminds you that you have one.

It isn't enough to love; we must prove it.

Nothing's done well when it's done out of self-interest.

Discouragement itself is a form of pride.

Love consumes us only in the measure of our self-surrender.

I felt it better to speak to God than about Him.

Silence does good to the soul.