You're Tearing Me Apart!

I Didn't Know What To Do. How Do You Tell An Eight-year-old Boy His Mother's Going To Die? I Tried. In My Own Stumbling Way I Tried To Prepare Jim For It. Nowadays, He Lives In A World We Don't Understand Too Well, The Actor's World. We Don't See Too Much Of Him. But He's A Good Boy, My Jim. A Good Boy, And I'm Very Proud Of Him. Not Easy To Understand, No Sir. He's Not Easy To Understand. But He's All Man, And He'll Make His Mark. Mind You, My Boy Will Make His Mark.

An Actor Must Interpret Life, And In Order To Do So Must Be Willing To Accept All The Experiences Life Has To Offer. In Fact, He Must Seek Out More Of Life Than Life Puts At His Feet. In The Short Span Of His Lifetime, An Actor Must Learn All There Is To Know, Experience All There Is To Experience, Or Approach That State As Closely As Possible. He Must Be Superhuman In His Efforts To Store Away In The Core Of His Subconscious Everything That He Might Be Called Upon To Use In The Expression Of His Art.

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.

To Grasp The Full Significance Of Life Is The Actor's Duty; To Interpret It His Problem; And To Express It His Dedication. Being An Actor Is The Loneliest Thing In The World. You Are All Alone With Your Concentration And Imagination, And That's All You Have. Being A Good Actor Isn't Easy. Being A Man Is Even Harder. I Want To Be Both Before I'm Done.

My Fun Days Are Over.