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

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.

Humor is an attitude, a survivor’s way of looking at life. It’s not about telling jokes.

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.

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.

To go into acting is like asking for admission to an insane asylum. Anyone may apply, but only the certifiably insane are admitted.