I pity the shrimp that matches wits with you Jeeves
Acting is about listening and reacting. John Wayne was right: Acting is just reacting. You don't have to do much - as long as you stay out of the way of others. That's why it works.
I don't like mushiness. I'm a very emotional person but I hate sentimentality. I don't like great demonstrations of emotion. But as I'm getting older, I'm getting much more open about all that.
I am able to play monsters well. I understand monsters. I understand madmen.
We all dream. We dream vividly, depending on our nature. Our existence is beyond our explanation, whether we believe in God or we have religion or we're atheist.
I'm more and more convinced that life is a dream. What has happened to me is surely a dream.
That's what happens if you don't address the darkness in you. You become repressed and depressed and suicidal.
In my career as an actor, there is a catchphrase that Scofield always says often in regards to his brother, 'Have a little faith. ' In my own career as an actor, there were times when I was the only one who believed in myself in the face of the odds.
I have long thought that anyone who does not regularly - or ever - gaze up and see the wonder and glory of a dark night sky filled with countless stars loses a sense of their fundamental connectedness to the universe.
To have your attention in the Now is not a denial of what is needed in your life. It is recognition of what is primary.
Each generation must recreate liberty for its own times.