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

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

Competition 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. The good actor is the one who competes, willingly, who enjoys competing. An actor must compete, or die...Peacefulness and the avoidance of trouble won't help in his acting. It is just the opposite he must seek.

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

If we lived for reality, we'd be dead, every last one of us. Only dreams keep us going.

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

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