I think L. A. gets a bad rap. L. A. is the same as everywhere else.
By taking elements you observe in life, you can develop qualities in your acting life that you don't ordinarily call upon in your personal life.
You have to do something. If you do something, you become somebody. Even a daffodil does something, has a profession. It gives off scent, professionally.
Life is boring. The weather is boring. Actors must not be boring.
The theatre-acting, creating, interpreting - means total involvement, the totality of heart, mind and spirit.
Be innocent, wise and ninety-five.
You have to get beyond your own precious inner experiences. The actor cannot afford to look only to his own life for all his material nor pull strictly from his own experience to find his acting choices and feelings. The ideas of the great playwrights are almost always larger than the experiences of even the best actors.
We're worn into grooves by Time-by our habits. In the end, these grooves are going to show whether we've been second rate or champions, each in his way in dispatching the affairs of every day. By choosing our habits, we determine the grooves into which Time will wear us; and these are grooves that enrich our lives and make for ease of mind, peace, happiness - achievement.
Christian fundamentalists seek to roll back women's right to choose in the United States, and then also insist that money against Aids must not go to organisations that help people obtain their reproductive rights. These are extremely worrying trends.
If I had my way. . . We would lock ourselves away from that madness out there.
Cows are a lot smarter across the board than bulls.