Courage means willing to risk everything.
Technique is something that you use if you need it. Otherwise, to hell with it.
Acting is not talking, it's living off the other fellow!!!
Silence has a myriad of meanings. In the theater, silence is an absence of words, but never an absence of meaning.
The text is your greatest enemy.
The greatest piece of acting or music or sculpture or what-have-you always has its roots in the truth of human emotion.