Acting is a spiritual quest to touch human beings.

You can't play an emotional condition; you have an emotional condition, and because you have that condition, you try to overcome it with active doings (intentions).

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.

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

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.

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.

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.