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.

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.

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

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

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

Conflict is what creates drama. The more conflict actors find, the more interesting the performance.

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