Everything I'm teaching you about acting has one aim only: to fire you up emotionally and behaviorally so that you can give a vivid, involving, and memorable performance.

That's what our work can do: we remind people that things can change, that wounds can heal, that people can be forgiven, and that closed hearts can open again.

One of the most important things I've learned about acting is that you can't separate how you live your life and how you practice your art.

I call this book The Intent to Live because great actors don't seem to be acting, they seem to be actually living.

You're not simply entitled to be an actor - you're not an actor just because you call yourself one - you earn it. You earn it by working.

It's not enough to identify the Superobjective intellectually; you have to justify it, to find the emotional drive behind it. You need your own specific interpretation of the superobjective so that every time you think of it, it makes you emotional and drives you into action.

Acting represents all that human beings experience, and if you want it to be 'nice,' you will never be a serious communicator of the human experience.