I've come to this conclusion: What makes a great actor is great need. A huge need of acting.
“And forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair.”
“When you repeat, in that wooden and perfunctory way, that our situation is better than others, that we're 'well-placed to weather the storm', I have to tell you that you sound like a Brezhnev-era apparatchik giving the party line.”