To Me, Acting Is The

Live Fast, Die Young, Leave A Good Looking Corpse.

If I Can Keep This Up And Nothing Interferes With My Progress, One Of These Days I Might Be Able To Contribute Something To The World.

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.

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.

Reality Doesn't Have Any Preconceived Ideas. You've Got To Learn How To Smoke The Cigarette, Not Act Smoking The Cigarette. You Need To Drink The Drink, Not Act Drinking The Drink. You've Got To Do Things And Not Show Them.