Every scene you will ever act begins in the middle, and it is up to you, the actor, to provide what comes before.
The life of an actor is a bit easier to take if you admit you're bonkers.
The actor needs to find out what the basic fight is in every character in every scene.
Creating relationship is the heart of acting. It is basic. It is essential.
The first step to a better audition is to give up character and use yourself.
Acting in theatre or television or screen is only for the irrecoverably diseased, those so smitten with the need that there is no choice.