We're all put to the test... but it never comes in the form or at the point we would prefer, does it?

The audience perceives only what the actor wants to do to the other actor.

The true writer must write not the acceptable but the true.

The study of acting consists in the main of getting out of one’s own way, and in learning to deal with uncertainty and being comfortable being uncomfortable.

It’s not a lie. It’s a gift for fiction.

The surprise is half the battle. Many things are half the battle, losing is half the battle. Let's think about what's the whole battle.

Each culture has its own form of staged combat, evolved from its particular method of street fighting and cleaned up for presentation as a spectacle, e.g. savate, Cornish wrestling, karate, kung-fu.