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Being real is what is important.

You need to be real enough to be believable, but you don't necessarily have to be real enough to be real. There is a distinction.

Real life is the life that's in you, not your circumstances, like where you live or what job you have or who you're in relationship with.

I think I'm very real as a person, and that comes across in my work.

What's real? What's not? That's what I do in my act, test how other people deal with reality.

In order to make characters real - no matter what the character is doing - you have to see yourself as capable of having done that.

Pretend and real are all real to a psychopath.

Real people do real things. A collective of a whole bunch of people who do things in their own locale, in their own neighborhoods - the sum is bigger than the parts, and the parts will grow.

Sometimes what is 'real' because it takes place in the physical world, like 9/11, is so unreal on the level of the soul. Then other things, which in terms of the physical world seem so magical and unbelievable, on the level of the soul seem very real.

Even when you are playing someone who is real, you get their mannerisms and you get their little quirks, but, it still has to be something inside of you that connects with the role, or else you will not be any good.