I think I knew acting was what I wanted to do. But I was from this small town and there was no place for an adult to recognise it.
“Do not use that foreign word 'ideals.' We have that excellent native word 'lies.'”
“What that book does for me is give me the tools in the same way that I had the tools when I learned the regular scales or the alphabet. If you give me the tools, the syntax, and the grammar, it still doesn't tell me how to write Ulysses.”