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

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

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

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

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.

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