“Incorporating it, somehow trying to work their way all together to a meaning of some kind, or at least a conclusion.”

I don’t think it does the audience any good to know what I do to prepare.

What I’ve learned about teaching is to refer back to the root of that word, which is educo, which means “to pull from.

You can begin to see an amalgamation of cultures, the real beginning of one world.

I don’t believe in competitions between artists. This is insane. Who has the authority to say someone is better?

Improvisation sometimes seemed more like jazz than acting, like verbal jazz, with the actors playing a theme back and forth, and then introducing another themeM

I played guitar. I’ve always considered myself an actor, but I wasn’t making a living as an actor. So I was in a couple of folk groups that managed to keep me in underwear and burritos.

That’s what we’re all doing, all the time, whether we know it or not. Whether we like it or not. Creating something on the spur of the moment with the materials at hand.

It’s murder to doubt yourself in life. It took until I was 45 to get to that point.

Every physicist knows that things connect with each other. To isolate things is not the way the universe works – winning best actor is arbitrary.

But one of the things I learned from improvising is that all of life is an improvisation, whether you like it or not.

IN order to inform what I’m doing; otherwise, it just becomes the snake eating its own tail. Vampirism.

Catch-22′ was a huge failure, and it rubbed off on everybody connected to it.

Confronting some stern and faceless judge who would condemn me to a pit of hell if I didn’t achieve the “zone,” if even for a moment. Not a particularly happy place to work from.

Truth is always unfolding. It’s not an absolute.

No matter how much time you spend reading books or following your intuition, you’re gonna screw it up. Fifty times. You can’t do parenting right.

It doesn’t mean we don’t take it seriously, but no one is under the delusion (that we’re) bringing world peace.

Love is nothing if it is not spontaneous. It cannot be a conclusion of reasoning.

Someone had to embrace positive beginnings before anyone could celebrate successful conclusions or continuations.

Has it led you to the conclusion that photography is an art ? Or it is simply a means of recording ? “I’m glad you asked that. I’ve been wanting to say this for years.

Stupidity consists in wanting to reach conclusions. We are a thread, and we want to know the whole cloth.

The conclusion does not belong to the artist.

I have come to the conclusion that politics are too serious a matter to be left to the politicians.

Since it is obviously inconceivable that all religions can be right, the most reasonable conclusion is that they are all wrong.

As human beings we suffer from an innate tendency to jump to conclusions; to judge people too quickly and to pronounce them failures or heroes without due consideration of the actual facts and ideals of the period.