Whatever you decide is your motivation in the scene, the opposite of that is also true and should be in it.

Competition 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. The good actor is the one who competes, willingly, who enjoys competing. An actor must compete, or die...Peacefulness and the avoidance of trouble won't help in his acting. It is just the opposite he must seek.

The first step to a better audition is to give up character and use yourself.

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

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

If we lived for reality, we'd be dead, every last one of us. Only dreams keep us going.

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