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

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.

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.

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.

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

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