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

Consistency is the death of good acting.

An actor is looking for conflict. Conflict is what creates drama. We are taught to avoid trouble [so] actors don't realize they must go looking for it. Plays are written about...the extraordinary, the unusual, the climaxes. The more conflict actors find, the more interesting the performance.

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.

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

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

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