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The point of power is always in the present moment.

Zen teaches that once we can open up to the inevitability of our demise, we can begin to transform that situation and lighten up about it.

I went through this realization that acting, at its heart, is the ability to manipulate your own emotions.

When it's working, what acting is really about is getting into the essence of a moment in a creative, joyous way - through whatever frees you up.

To me, acting is the most logical way for people's neuroses to manifest themselves, in this great need we all have to express ourselves.

What this power is I cannot say; all I know is that it exists and it becomes available only when a man is in that state of mind in which he knows exactly what he wants and is fully determined not to quit until he finds it.

I feel there's a power in theatre, but it's an indirect power. It's like the relationship of the sleeper to the unconscious. You discover things you can't afford to countenance in waking life. You can forget them, remember them a day later or not have any idea what they are about.

Power is the ability to get things done.

I see all these people talking about acting as a great spiritual thing. It's not. There's no great mystery to acting. It's a very simple thing to do, but you have to work hard at it. It's about asking questions and using your imagination.