The most precious things in speech are the pauses.
Actors are the jockeys of literature. Others supply the horses, the plays, and we simply make them run.
Acting is merely the art of keeping a large group of people from coughing.
Acting is the ability to dream on cue.
Dead? No excuse for laying off work.
You've got to perform in a role hundreds of times. In keeping it fresh one can become a large, madly humming, demented refrigerator.