Decent people shouldn't live here. They'd be happier some place else.

If you get an impulse in a scene, no matter how wrong it seems, follow the impulse. It might be something and if it ain't - take two!

There's probably no one who understands Method acting better academically than I do, or actually uses it more in his work. But it's funny - nobody really sees that. It's perception versus reality, I suppose.

I just know that sameness, repetition, and conceptualizing are the acting craft's adversaries, and it seems more intelligent to start off within a framework where those things are, to some degree, taken out of your hands.

It's very easy to go down, so always live up. Incline yourself upward.

Son, we live in a world that has walls and those walls have to be guarded by men with guns. Who's gonna do it? You!?

When we make mistakes they call it evil. When God makes mistakes they call it Nature!