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The main thing is the ability to control your instrument, which, in the actor, is yourself. Look the way you want the character to look. Sound the way you want the character to sound. Once you've trained the instrument to do what you want, you're in control, and you're free.

I don't have a great instrument. I don't have the kind of ungodly control over my voice and body that great actors have. And I've worked with enough great actors to know that I'm not one.

Actors are responsible to the people we play.

Working with a bunch of actors is like trying to tune each violin.

The actor should not play a part. Like the Aeolian harps that used to be hung in the trees to be played only by the breeze, the actor should be an instrument played upon by the character he depicts.

One of the first lessons you learn as an actor is to listen.

Roles make the actor.

I'm an actor. Actors are supposed to act.

As an actor, you don't have control over what you do, whom you work with.