If You've Been Fortunate Enough

It Can Be A Simple Sentence That Makes One Single Point And You Build For That. You Zero In On One Moment That Gets That Character, You Go For It, That's It, Man, And If You Fail The Whole Thing Is Down The Drain, But If You Make It You Hit The Moon.

I Had No Desire To Be In The Movies. All My Training Had Been In The Theater, Thank God.

How She Moves. That's Just Like Jell-o On Springs. She Must Have Some Sort Of Built-in Motors. I Tell You, It's A Whole Different Sex! Joe: What Are You Afraid Of? Nobody's Asking You To Have A Baby.

Acting Doesn't Have Anything To Do With Listening To The Words. We Never Really Listen, In General Conversation, To What The Other Person Is Saying. We Listen To What They Mean. And What They Mean Is Often Quite Apart From The Words. When You See A Scene Between Two Actors That Goes Really Well You Can Be Sure They're Not Listening To Each Other - They're Feeling What The Other Person Is Trying To Get At. Know What I Mean?

She Has Never Messed Up A Single Take Yet. Recently I Was In A Scene And There Was A Table Covered With A Cloth. When The Director Said Cut, I Saw A Black Nose And Two Paws Inching Out From Under The Cloth. She Had Hidden There Without Making A Sound Until We Were Done With The Scene. She Wanted To Be Nearer To Me.