so when you say to me that, you know, i'm channeling mcbeth these things, you got to tell me more abouts. >> actors have a thing called sense memory, and that means that no experience is ever wasted on us. but it can make us sometimes uncomfortable people to be with, because there is always an monitoring an experience. experience. monitoring what's happening, watching, observing and storing experience. you're saying to yourself, oh, that's what it feels like when all of a sudden i think i'm going to be mugged in the street and i feel threatened. that's what it feels like. store this away, remember it, it's important. we do that all the time. it builds up this bank balance authentic. it belongs to us. now, all right, i don't know what it's like to cut a child's throat. happens in "macbeth." but i have to imaginetively put myself into that place, so maybe i can find some parallel, i don't know. you have imaginetively process an experience until you can find a connection. and that's why the work that the actors do in private, alone in a room, when you put yourself into those situations, im