The most precious things in speech are the pauses.
In music, the punctuation is absolutely strict, the bars and rests are absolutely defined. But our punctuation cannot be quite strict, because we have to relate it to the audience. In other words we are continually changing the score.
Acting: An art which consists of keeping the audience from coughing.
Dead? No excuse for laying off work.
Acting is the ability to dream on cue.
I like talking to engineers best. They built bridges, they're very precise, very disciplined, yet I find they have roving minds.