The most important thing you can teach actors is to understand plays.
Life beats down and crushes the soul and art reminds you that you have one.
The word theatre comes from the Greeks. It means the seeing place.
When you stand on the stage you must have a sense that you are addressing the whole world, and that what you say is so important the whole world must listen.
You'll never really be great unless you aim high.
Our heritage as actors goes back thousands of years, and we have to feel as comfortable in the clothes, and the language of Sophocles as we do in our sneakers.