I Became An Actor By Accident, Not

Hackman Is Able To Live In The Moment Which Means There Is Nothing For Him At That Split Second Than What Is Occurring In The Scene.

I Was Originally Going To Be A Lawyer, And The Only Thing I Remember From The Art Of Cross-examination Is - You Can See This One Coming Up Sixth Avenue - Never Ask A Question The Answer To Which You Do Not Know.

There Are Still Actors Who Use Emotional Memory, Affective Memory, Which Was Lee Strasberg's Emphasis, Not His Total Emphasis. She Taught Everything At The Actor's Studio. But Nevertheless, She Felt That It Impeded Her.

I'd Been On Everybody Else's Show And There Was Always A Preinterview. Somebody Would Come With A Tape Recorder And You'd Talk For Three Or Four Hours, And They'd Take It Back And It Would Be Transcribed, And It Would Be Given To The Writers, Those Many Writers You See On All Those Shows, Larry King, Letterman, Leno, Etc. And Then They Choose The Answers That Will Be Most Evocative On Their Show.

I Must Confess That When I'm Alone In My Study, Here In New York, Writing; That's When I'm Happy.