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Most good actors have a huge intelligence about the human condition and a real open heart to different kinds of people and behavior.

You find with the really great actors, the ones you really admire and look up to, very often they're very giving, generous, warm people.

Actors are very generous.

Actors, their greatest tool, their greatest resource is imagination. You can take things, power objects, you can recruit your dreams, you can access your memories and get there. So the idea is not to act but to just be.

Good acting comes from finding the essence of a character.

As actors, we are so privileged to do what we do and to give to the world and to choose the subject we want to say to the world.

To be a good actor you have to feel life and observe life.

Actors look at life in a different way. When I meet people, I know that one day I may portray that person or someone like them. It may be a cop or a homeless guy. It helps you to pay more attention to people. Everyone I meet, I retain something from them, something from their personality. It helps me to portray realism in my work.

Nobody should expect an actor to have these wonderful ideas and concepts about the world: they pretend to be other people for a living.

Actors are there to represent the human condition back to itself. It's never about the actor. It's about the content. That's what I strive for in my work.