I'll tell you this: you cannot escape the impact of emotion, whether it's in a big theater or a tiny one. If you have it, it inflates you — correction, 'inflates' is not a good word. If you have it, it infects you and the audience. If you don't have it — don't bother; just say the lines as truthfully as you are capable of doing. You can't fake emotion. It immediately exposes the fact that you ain't got it.

Don't be an actor. Be a human being who works off what exists under imaginary circumstances.

Acting is not talking, it's living off the other fellow!!!

With a developed imagination there's no place you can't go.

Your acting will not be good until it is only yours. That's true of music, acting, anything creative. You work until finally nobody is acting like you.

The American actor is very lucky. Why? Because so little is asked of him.

Silence has a myriad of meanings. In the theater, silence is an absence of words, but never an absence of meaning.