When an actor plays a scene exactly the way a director orders, it isn't acting. It's following instructions. Anyone with the physical qualifications can do that.

The only way to make a scene realistic is to do it the way you know it would really happen.

Being an actor is the loneliest thing in the world. You are all alone with your concentration and imagination, and that's all you have. Being a good actor isn't easy. Being a man is even harder. I want to be both before I'm done."

To grasp the full significance of life is the actor's duty, to interpret it is his problem, and to express it his dedication.

It is a complete outrage that my client has had to endure such physical and emotional distress following what should have been a straightforward, routine procedure. Not only does she live in constant fear of contracting a deadly disease, but she cannot remove these parts from her back. She will spend the rest of her life knowing that bones stolen from a corpse are in her body.

following orders from [President] Bush.