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.

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

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

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.

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

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