Humor [in a scene] is not jokes. It is that attitude toward being alive without which you would long ago have jumped off the 59th Street Bridge.

Whatever you decide is your motivation in the scene, the opposite of that is also true and should be in it.

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

Humor [in a scene] is not jokes. It is that attitude toward being alive without which you would long ago have jumped off the 59th Street Bridge.

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

Every scene you will ever act begins in the middle, and it is up to you, the actor, to provide what comes before.

That's why there's so little romance in our world now: everyone thinks romance is weak.