Without acting, I cannot breathe.

Without acting, I cannot breathe.

Surely we have always acted; it is an instinct inherent in all of us. Some of us are better at it than others, but we all do it.

What is the main problem of the actor? It is to keep the audience awake, and not let them go to sleep, then wake up and go home feeling they've wasted their money.

We ape, we mimic, we mock. We act.

Acting is illusion, as much illusion as magic is - and not so much a matter of being real.

You must have - besides intuition and sensitivity - a cutting edge that allows you to reach what you need. Also, you have to know life - bastards included - and it takes a bit of one to know one, don't you think?