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.

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

An actor must make his needs (goals, wants, objectives) so strong that he is willing to interfere with the other actor in order to get what he needs. Interfering means getting in their way so that what you want is stronger than what they want.

Competition 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 good actor is the one who competes, willingly, who enjoys competing. An actor must compete, or die...Peacefulness and the avoidance of trouble won't help in his acting. It is just the opposite he must seek.

There's only one reason why a character drinks: to seek confrontation. To fight for what they want in ways normally denied them.

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

Every scene is a love scene. The actor should ask the question: 'Where is the love?'