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

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

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

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.

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

Most actors make themselves unhappy by searching for their sanity, by insisting on their normalcy; it's a grave mistake.

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