In The Moment: Acting, Art And Life

"When you are able to transmute your suffering into... expression, into creativity, into play, then... to the world you appear confident."

"The moment always, always supersedes any *&%^ bullsh!t idea we have about text or story or characters..."

"We spend an inordinate amount of energy to put on clamps of control so that we don't have feel, which is actually our natural state... Vulnerability is actually the most empowered state you can be in."

"Listening has taught me a lot about breathing and a lot about dropping in and a lot about not worrying what you're supposed to say next, or do next, or how you're supposed to react."

"Do you look at anybody who is working in their work from an open-hearted place, from a place of judgement and condemnation? No, so don't do it to yourself. Do those people inspire you? Yes... You are one of those people. It's important to be a way-shower."

"The totality of being a creative being is more than just how you define yourself."

"I'm talking about engaging in the risk of connecting with people and being brave enough to share who you are. So even if you've been burned by it you try again."

"How could it be as good as it gets? It's impossible... Keep searching and keep asking."

"On set actors are struggling and figuring it out and maybe eventually they do get there on their own, with a lot of struggling and figuring it out, or the director helps them." Actors Featured: Andromeda Godfry and Rose Akroyd

"You do not have to be anybody but you to get work; black, white, green, gay, trans, it doesn't matter you just be who you are. Because if you don't, if you coopt another identity thinking that's the way to get a job, you could get a job that way... it's a soulless exchange. No job is worth your soul!"

"It's a great time to just be who you are."

"You have to realize you have the power... you are part of the equation of creating something. You have to start walking into rooms and realize that, you have to know that... Remember that you can call the shots."

"Take the leap... sometimes it's just tiny leaps; tiny leaps will get you to the next thing, you've just gotta take the leap!"

"You just have to try to find a way to reinterpret your current circumstances in a way that's more ascendant... find a way that just inspires you to to keep moving forward."

"Get in that moment and get burned by it... that then also becomes the phoenix... You are so burnt by having to feel that then something else can be created out of that."

"There's a place for you, we don't have you, who you are is important... You don't have to try to be somebody else, we've already got that person that you respect and admire, we don't have you."

"From Gold Medals to Academy Awards, Your Victories are a Relaxation Away!" Relax, relax, relax.

"You're so freaked the f#&k out by revealing who you are you compensate by 'doing'. It's not interesting. You don't get cast that way..."

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"It's the intention you bring to something, it's the intrinsic value that comes in being of service. So everybody in here is an artist..."