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

The life of an actor is a bit easier to take if you admit you're bonkers.

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

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.

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

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

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