"Acting is not a genteel profession. Actors used to be buried at a crossroads with a stake through the heart. Those people performances so troubled the onlookers that they feared their ghosts. An awesome compliment.
Those players moved the audience not such they were admitted to a graduate school, or received a complimentary review, but such that the audience feared for their soul. Now that seems to me something to aim for."
True and False
Heresy and Common Sense for the Actor
David Mamet