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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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