If you really do want to be an actor who can satisfy himself and his audience, you need to be vulnerable.

Anything truly worthwhile does not come easy. If it did, it would not be all that worthwhile.

If you really do want to be an actor who can satisfy himself and his audience, you need to be vulnerable.

Part of an actor's job is to actually adopt the world-view of the character she is playing and to tell the story from that vantage point. If an actor represses large aspects of their personality, they will have a severely limited range and castability. Great actors cultivate effortless access to their subpersonalities. Many acting teachers call this 'freeing your instrument.'

I was born in an elevator, and - as my mother said - naturally it was going down. She said, "All I remember is telling your father, 'That's it! Never again!'" That's why I'm an only child.

I think whatever you do, if you are going to do well or even if you don't do it well, you have to have a passion for it, and I am passionate about it. I love it. I respect it and it gets me. I get off on acting.

I would rather play Hamlet with no rehearsal than TV golf.