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.

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

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

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

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.

An expression of feeling isn't worth anything unless it interferes with what the other actor in the scene wants.

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