Everyone thinks romance is weak. Yet romance is everyone's secret dream-it's why we're alive.

Humor is an attitude, a survivor’s way of looking at life. It’s not about telling jokes.

Listening is not merely hearing, it is receiving the message that is being sent to you. Listening is reacting. Listening is being affected by what you hear. Listening is letting it land before you react. Listening is letting your reaction make a difference. Listening is active.

No matter how much we know about the other person, there is always something going on in that other heart and that other head that we don't know but can only ponder. And no matter how we explain ourselves to someone else, no matter how open we are, there is always still something inexplicable, something hidden and unknown in us, too.

The actor needs to find out what the basic fight is in every character in every scene.

Consistency is the death of good acting.

To go into acting is like asking for admission to an insane asylum. Anyone may apply, but only the certifiably insane are admitted.