There is an extraordinary collaborative spirit when you are learning and growing.
The theatre-acting, creating, interpreting - means total involvement, the totality of heart, mind and spirit.
You have to do something. If you do something, you become somebody. Even a daffodil does something, has a profession. It gives off scent, professionally.
Life is boring. The weather is boring. Actors must not be boring.
Be innocent, wise and ninety-five.
You have to get beyond your own precious inner experiences. The actor cannot afford to look only to his own life for all his material nor pull strictly from his own experience to find his acting choices and feelings. The ideas of the great playwrights are almost always larger than the experiences of even the best actors.
Your job as actors is to understand the size of what you say, to understand what's beneath the word.
The world of photography is very self-aware. Everybody is always looking around. So it's quite difficult to stand up with a megaphone and declare, "This is what I think. " As a reasonably shy person, I found it difficult to do that.
Never love unless you can bear with all the faults of man!
I cannot teach a child I do not know
And let me tell you, you boys of America, that there is no higher inspiration to any man to be a good man, a good citizen, and a good son, brother, or father, than the knowledge that you come from honest blood.