On ACTING: A Simple Definition

"What is primary in acting--what the best actors and actresses have in abundance--is the extraordinary courage and insight to live fully, honestly and intensely in public: (1) to face and accept the deepest truths about themselves and, by extension, of humankind in general, and (2)) be willing to really live out, withing the demands of the script, those truths in a real, exciting manner before an audience."

...from "Acting is Living"