If you've been fortunate enough to live out your dream in the profession of your choice, then you have an obligation to send the elevator back down.

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.'

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

Acting doesn't have anything to do with listening to the words. We never really listen, in general conversation, to what the other person is saying. We listen to what they mean. And what they mean is often quite apart from the words. When you see a scene between two actors that goes really well you can be sure they're not listening to each other - they're feeling what the other person is trying to get at. Know what I mean?

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

How do you know that God didn't speak to Charles Darwin?

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