Storytelling helps us understand each other, translate the issues of our times, and the tools of theater and film can be powerful in helping young people to develop communication/collaboration skills, let alone improving their own confidence.

I've been on sets where things weren't relaxed because someone was creating tension for no reason.

The greatest sound in the theater is silence.

I went through a period of great rebellion within my family, when I was about 9 or 10. I was mad, I had no focus, had no real interest in anything, and so I started to do things that were just rebellious and stupid.

If youre not concerned about maintaining an image, you can pursue roads that another actor might not take.

Being an actor sometimes requires that you ask yourself questions youd rather not know the answers to.

It's so easy for us to misperceive and see the things in others that we want to see. And, when we're wrong, and often we're dead wrong, we miss the truth.