I once asked Barbara Stanwyck the secret of acting. She said: 'Just be truthful - and if you can fake that, you've got it made'.
Most people would rather be sheep than stand on their own with antlers on.
Some people are afraid of what they might find if they try to analyze themselves too much, but you have to crawl into your wounds to discover where your fears are. Once the bleeding starts, the cleansing can begin.
Healing takes courage, and we all have courage, even if we have to dig a little to find it.
Some of the most wonderful people are the ones who don't fit into boxes.
We can all choose to become our potential, not just talk about it or dream about it. But daily, make a shift whereby we begin living and being our potential. With each day, that potential can expand because we are open to learning something every day.
Sometimes you have to do what you don't like to get to where you want to be.
Look at Walter Huston in The Devil and Daniel Webster: It's an incredible performance.
I'm sure many writers have these strange, tiny little habits.
There's nothing to prove, nothing to figure out, nothing to get, nothing to understand. When we finally stop explaining everything to ourselves, we may discover that in silence, complete understanding is already there.
I'd had the theater background for so long that I know that world inside out; I just didn't know the pace of how a TV set works, like how a show shoots.