Quotes from Larry Moss

I call this book The Intent to Live because great actors don't seem to be acting, they seem to be actually living.

Sanford Meisner taught actors never to look at the punctuation in a script. His belief was that it would force you into giving a particular line reading that might not be your own—meaning that you would get stuck in a certain way of saying it instead of following the impulses arising from your intention.

One of the most important things I've learned about acting is that you can't separate how you live your life and how you practice your art.

That's what our work can do: we remind people that things can change, that wounds can heal, that people can be forgiven, and that closed hearts can open again.

You can't play an emotional condition; you have an emotional condition, and because you have that condition, you try to overcome it with active doings (intentions).