When actors are talking, they are servants of the dramatist. It is what they can show the audience when they are not talking that reveals the fine actor.
“The father of a daughter is nothing but a high-class hostage. A father turns a stony face to his sons, berates them, shakes his antlers, paws the ground, snorts, runs them off into the underbrush, but when his daughter puts her arm over his shoulder and says, 'Daddy, I need to ask you something,' he”
“You spend so much time in your profession it ought to be something you love.”