When it comes down to the music, it's just you and the microphone. It's not you and the record execs.
Listen with your gut, not your head.
Life beats down and crushes our souls and theatre reminds us that we have one. At least the type of theatre that I'm interested in; that is, theatre that moves an audience. You have the opportunity to literally impact the lives of people if they work on material that has integrity. But today, most actors simply want to be famous. Well, being an actor was never supposed to be about fame and money. Being an actor is a religious calling because you've been given the ability, the gift to inspire humanity. Think about that on the way to your soap opera audition.
Act before you think - your instincts are more honest than your thoughts.
Acting is behaving truthfully under imaginary circumstances.
If you want to reach every person in the audience, it's not about being bigger, it's about going deeper.
Don't be an actor. Be a human being who works off what exists under imaginary circumstances.
Most of us have unhealthy thoughts and emotions that have either developed as a result of trauma or hardships in their childhood, or the way they were raised.
It is all here. You make the choice.
But Americans find me bizarre and always ask me why I eat so many carbs. I tell them I don't get full otherwise.
I'm not very good at sitting still.