For it is written that just as it is forbidden to partake of the forbidden, it is forbidden not to partake of the permitted.

Cultivate a love of skill. Learn theatrical skills. They will give you continual pleasure, self-confidence, and link you to fifty thousand years of the history of our profession.

Worry is interest paid in advance on a debt that never comes due.

I'm afraid of only two things: being lazy and being cowardly.

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

Make the audience wonder what's going on by putting them in the same position as the protagonist.

At the Neighborhood Playhouse School of Theatre, Sanford Meisner said, 'When you go into the professional world, at a stock theatre somewhere, backstage, you will meet an older actor, someone who has been around awhile. He will tell you tales and anecdotes, about life in the theatre. He will speak to you about your performance and the performances of others, and he will generalize to you, based on his experience and his intuitions, about the laws of the stage. Ignore this man!'