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

An expression of feeling isn't worth anything unless it interferes with what the other actor in the scene wants.

The moral: Don't settle for anything less than the biggest dream for your future Fight to make the dream come true.

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

No matter how much we know about the other person, there is always something going on in that other heart and that other head that we don't know but can only ponder. And no matter how we explain ourselves to someone else, no matter how open we are, there is always still something inexplicable, something hidden and unknown in us, too.

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

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