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

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.

The life of an actor is a bit easier to take if you admit you're bonkers.

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

Consistency is the death of good acting.

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.