We call interconnected order beautiful. When interrupted, we call it chaos.
Usually, someone who's in a show gets me a ticket. I feel cornered. I can't walk out if I don't like it.
We must overcome the notion that we must be regular. . . it robs you of the chance to be extraordinary and leads you to the mediocre.
Theoretically, the actor ought to be more sound in mind and body than other people, since he learns to understand the psychological problems of human beings when putting his own passions, his loves, fears, and rages to work in the service of the characters he plays. He will learn to face himself, to hide nothing from himself- and to do so takes AN INSATIABLE CURIOSITY ABOUT THE HUMAN CONDITION
The knowledge that every day there is something more to learn, something higher to reach for, something new to make for others, makes each day infinitely precious
no work of art is ever finished, nothing is ever static, no performance is for keeps.
Talent is an amalgam of high sensitivity; easy vulnerability; high sensory equipment (seeing, hearing, touching, smelling, tasting intensely); a vivid imagination as well as a grip on reality; the desire to communicate one's own experience and sensations, to make one's self heard and seen.
Money has no religion except itself.
'She's Gotta Have It' was shot in twelve days and two six-day weeks.
Character is greater than talent, genius, fame, money, friends - there is nothing to compare with it. A man may have all these and yet remain comparatively useless - be unhappy - and die a bankrupt in soul.
It is not in our choice to spread the gospel or not. It is our death if we do not.