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

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.

Humor [in a scene] is not jokes. It is that attitude toward being alive without which you would long ago have jumped off the 59th Street Bridge.

An actor must make his needs (goals, wants, objectives) so strong that he is willing to interfere with the other actor in order to get what he needs. Interfering means getting in their way so that what you want is stronger than what they want.

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

There's only one reason why a character drinks: to seek confrontation. To fight for what they want in ways normally denied them.