Humor is an attitude, a survivor’s way of looking at life. It’s not about telling jokes.

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

No matter how much we know about the other person, there is always something going on in that other heart and that other head that we don't know but can only ponder. And no matter how we explain ourselves to someone else, no matter how open we are, there is always still something inexplicable, something hidden and unknown in us, too.

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

Consistency is the death of good acting.

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.

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