"I don't know what is better than the work that is given to the actor-to teach the human heart the knowledge of itself."

Work, Heart, Knowledge

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"I don't know what is better than the work that is given to the actor-to teach the human heart the knowledge of itself."

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"I've done my best to work from a place of humility - always looking over your shoulder saying, "Does this suck?" and I think that's a good way to work. The other way to work is where you start to think, "I'm on fire, I'm amazing!" and I don't think that's the way to work."

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"I go about looking at horses and cattle. They eat grass, make love, work when they have to, bear their young. I am sick with envy of them."

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"The best way to begin genuine bipartisanship to make America stronger is to work together on the real crises facing our country, not to manufacture an artificial crisis to serve a special interest agenda out of touch with the needs of Americans."

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"I should be soaring away with my head tilted slightly toward the gods, feeding on the caviar of Shakespeare. An actor must act."

God, Gods, Act, Shakespeare

"I'd like people to remember me for a diligent expert workman. I think a poet is a workman. I think Shakespeare was a workman. And God's a workman. I don't think there's anything better than a workman."

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"Acting is a masochistic form of exhibitionism. It is not quite the occupation of an adult."

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"I take a simple view of life: keep your eyes open and get on with it."

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"When you're a young man, Macbeth is a character part. When you're older, it's a straight part."

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"I believe that in a great city, or even in a small city or a village, a great theater is the outward and visible sign of an inward and probable culture."

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"I often think that could we creep behind the actor's eyes, we would find an attic of forgotten toys and a copy of the Domesday Book."

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"Surely we have always acted; it is an instinct inherent in all of us. Some of us are better at it than others, but we all do it."

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