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

We don't live for realities, but for the fantasies, the dreams of what might be. If we lived for reality, we'd be dead, every last one of us. Only dreams keep us going...When you are acting, don't settle for anything less than the biggest dream for your character's future.

An expression of feeling isn't worth anything unless it interferes with what the other actor in the scene wants.

Listening is not merely hearing, it is receiving the message that is being sent to you. Listening is reacting. Listening is being affected by what you hear. Listening is letting it land before you react. Listening is letting your reaction make a difference. Listening is active.

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

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.

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