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.

Every little moment has a meaning all its own.

Acting is the ability to live truthfully under the given imaginary circumstances

The truth of ourselves is the root of our acting.

The greatest piece of acting or music or sculpture or what-have-you always has its roots in the truth of human emotion.

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

Find in yourself those human things which are universal.