Everything that is truly worthwhile - I think passion is involved in your approach to it. No matter what it is.

No matter how successful you get, always send the elevator back down.

It's hard enough to write a good drama, it's much harder to write a good comedy, and it's hardest of all to write a drama with comedy. Which is what life is.

If you think it's hard to meet new people, try picking up the wrong golf ball.

Success is always somebody else's opinion of you; but it doesn't amount to a damn compared to your own opinion of yourself.

If you really do want to be an actor who can satisfy himself and his audience, you need to be vulnerable. [You must] reach the emotional and intellectual level of ability where you can go out stark naked, emotionally, in front of an audience.

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.'