Thereโs nothing better than discovering, to your own astonishment, what youโre meant to do. Itโs like falling in love.
Mike NicholsAll the theories that acting is reacting to imaginary circumstances as though they are real, and directing is turning psychology into behavior, those are all stabs at something that can't be taught. All the great actors can't talk about what they do, and they don't want to begin to talk about it. They just do it.
Mike NicholsTake off all your clothes and walk down the street waving a machete and firing an Uzi, and terrified citizens will phone the police and report, There's a naked person outside!
Mike Nichols