An actor is looking for conflict. Conflict is what creates drama. We are taught to avoid trouble [so] actors don't realize they must go looking for it. Plays are written about...the extraordinary, the unusual, the climaxes. The more conflict actors find, the more interesting the performance.

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.

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

Most actors make themselves unhappy by searching for their sanity, by insisting on their normalcy; it's a grave mistake.

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

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

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