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

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

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.

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

Consistency is the death of good acting.

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

Most actors make themselves unhappy by searching for their sanity, by insisting on their normalcy; it's a grave mistake.