We don't live for realities, but for the fantasies, the dreams of what might be. If we lived for reality, we'd be dead, every last one of us. Only dreams keep us going...When you are acting, don't settle for anything less than the biggest dream for your character's future.

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.

Competition [in a scene] is healthy. Competition is life. Yet most actors refuse to acknowledge this. They don't want to compete. They want to get along. And they are therefore not first-rate actors.

The first step to a better audition is to give up character and use yourself.

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

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

Acting in theatre or television or screen is only for the irrecoverably diseased, those so smitten with the need that there is no choice.