Motivation is the single most important factor in any sort of success.
The director took my face in his hands and asked me to show him my teeth, as with a horse. This happened on a Wednesday, and by the following Monday I was shooting.
You can fake your age or mask it, but the passion that moves the characters has to be real.
When I said I was going to audition for a film, I got a hearty laugh from all my family.
My first vocation was dance.
Acting is the work of two people - it's only possible when you have the complicity, the help, even the manipulation of a director.
When you have to get into the character each morning, give it your voice, your face, it was torture.
The everyday world, as Kant proved, is mere appearance. But it is also the only world in which we can make sense of the idea of a plurality of distinct individuals. We can only distinguish things as different if they occupy different regions of space-time. It follows (a point Kant missed but which the mystics have always understood) that reality 'in itself' is 'beyond plurality' and is, in that sense, 'One'.
There is so much data available to us, but most data won't help us succeed.
We are not a postwar generation, but a pre-peace generation. Jesus is coming.
I think everyone has gifts and everyone has talents. If you are successful at it, it feels really good but it never really penetrates completely.