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.

Courage means willing to risk everything.

Acting is behaving truthfully under imaginary circumstances.

WHY is the most important word in an actor's vocabulary.

There's no such thing as nothing.

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

If you want to reach every person in the audience, it's not about being bigger, it's about going deeper.