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

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.

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

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

Listening is not merely hearing, it is receiving the message that is being sent to you. Listening is reacting. Listening is being affected by what you hear. Listening is letting it land before you react. Listening is letting your reaction make a difference. Listening is active.

That's why there's so little romance in our world now: everyone thinks romance is weak.

We don't live for realities, but for the fantasies, the dreams of what might be. If we lived for reality, we'd be dead, every last one of us. Only dreams keep us going...When you are acting, don't settle for anything less than the biggest dream for your character's future.