Dream As If You'll Live Forever. Live

My Fun Days Are Over.

There Is No Way To Be Truly Great In This World. We Are Impaled On The Crook Of Conditioning. A Fish That Is In The Water Has No Choice That He Is. Genius Would Have It That We Swim In Sand. We Are Fish And We Drown.

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. So The Director's Task Is Just That – To Direct, To Point The Way. Then The Actor Takes Over. And He Must Be Allowed The Space, The Freedom To Express Himself In The Role. Without That Space, An Actor Is No More Than An Unthinking Robot With A Chest-full Of Push-buttons.

Reality Doesn't Have Any Preconceived Ideas. You've Got To Learn How To Smoke The Cigarette, Not Act Smoking The Cigarette. You Need To Drink The Drink, Not Act Drinking The Drink. You've Got To Do Things And Not Show Them.

The Gratification Comes In The Doing, Not In The Results.