The first step to a better audition is to give up character and use yourself.

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

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.

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.

Every scene you will ever act begins in the middle, and it is up to you, the actor, to provide what comes before.

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