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

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

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

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

To go into acting is like asking for admission to an insane asylum. Anyone may apply, but only the certifiably insane are admitted.

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.