What Better Way To Die? It's Fast

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.

I’m A Serious-minded And Intense Little Devil – Terribly Gauche And So Tense That I Don’t See How People Can Stay In The Same Room As Me. I Know I Couldn’t Tolerate Myself.

When An Actor Plays A Scene Exactly The Way A Director Orders, It Isn't Acting. It's Following Instructions. Anyone With The Physical Qualifications Can Do That. So The Director's Task Is Just That – To Direct, To Point The Way. Then The Actor Takes Over. And He Must Be Allowed The Space, The Freedom To Express Himself In The Role. Without That Space, An Actor Is No More Than An Unthinking Robot With A Chest-full Of Push-buttons.

To My Way Of Thinking, An Actor's Course Is Set Even Before He's Out Of The Cradle.

I Have Made Great Strides In My Craft. After Months Of Auditioning, I Am Very Proud To Announce That I Am A Member Of The Actors Studio. The Greatest School Of The Theater. It Houses Great People Like Marlon Brando, Julie Harris, Arthur Kennedy, Mildred Dunnockvery Few Get Into It, And It Is Absolutely Free. It Is The Best Thing That Can Happen To An Actor. I Am One Of The Youngest To Belong. 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.