Acting without design, occupying oneself without making a business of it, finding the great in what is small and the many in the few, repaying injury with kindness, effecting difficult things while they are easy, and managing great things in their be

Act as if the maxim of your action were to become through your will a be general natural law

The actor becomes an emotional athlete. The process is painful - my personal life suffers

On the stage he was natural, simple, affecting, Twas only when he was off, he was acting

I know certain actors are totally screwed up on drugs, yet it gets covered up. Why wasn't I excused for exhaustion or the flu?

I must say that acting was good training for the political life that lay ahead of us

I've been planted here to be a vessel for acting... That's why I'm really taking any part, regardless of how complicated it's going to be...

A lot of what acting is paying attention

Portraying emotionally ill characters gives me the chance to really act

Actors search for rejection. If they don't get it they reject themselves