“All I can say is if the part doesn’t delight me in some way, or I can’t feel any compassion for it, I just can’t do it.”

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.

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

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.