You create a friendship on a level that you've never done before. The basic kind of experience is to basically give love to total strangers all the time, and that really changed everything in me. And this piece transformed me more than any other one before. I saw my entire life differently. What do I have to do? What is my passion on this planet? I'm much more focused than I ever was before.

The body has an enormous power of healing, if you really believe you are going to be healed, you're going to be healed. If you really believe you're going to die, you're going to die. If you apply this kind of method to everything, then there is hope.

We, performers, work on willpower. This willpower works in a short term, not durational.

People ask me what book politicians should read. They should read the life of Mahatma Gandhi.

You know, James Franco is one of the most interesting figures because he has no rules. He breaks all the borders.

Theatre is fake... The knife is not real, the blood is not real, and the emotions are not real. Performance is just the opposite: the knife is real, the blood is real, and the emotions are real.

When you have a nonverbal conversation with a total stranger, then he cant cover himself with words, he cant create a wall.