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

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

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

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

Every scene is a love scene. The actor should ask the question: 'Where is the love?'

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.

There's only one reason why a character drinks: to seek confrontation. To fight for what they want in ways normally denied them.