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

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

Take nothing for granted. Make an emotional discovery as often as you can find one in every scene. Ask yourself: What is new?

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

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

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

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.