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 life of an actor is a bit easier to take if you admit you're bonkers.

Creating relationship is the heart of acting. It is basic. It is essential.

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

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

The moral: Don't settle for anything less than the biggest dream for your future Fight to make the dream come true.

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