Citazioni

[in 1975 to writer Joe Bevilacqua, on the art of acting] I want you to understand the words. I want you to taste the words. I want you to love the words. Because the words are important. But they're only words. You leave them on the paper and you take the thoughts and put them into your mind and then you as an actor recreate them, as if the thoughts had suddenly just occurred to you.

You have your hardware and your software. You have the machine to do it and then you need the stuff inside to put into it. The hardware is your lips, your tongue, your chest -- all the ways you get the voice projected. The software is in your head and that's where your material comes from. That's what makes it work.

Sensitivity is at the bottom of the whole thing and caring about what you do.

What I ended up doing, the voicing, is all I ever wanted to do. I never really hungered to be on camera or to be recognized in public. I don't see the point in it. That's flattery. The amazing thing is that once in a while somebody recognizes something in the timbre of my voice and says, "Are you Daws Butler?" That's nice that they like my work, but I really like being withdrawn and anonymous.

[In addition to Joe Bevilacqua's quote] Listen to the music of the words. Those words made it to the page, and the music of those words, and the way you play that music, will always be vital to your performance - whether the words on the page are the actual ones you use or not.