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

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

Humor is an attitude, a survivor’s way of looking at life. It’s not about telling jokes.

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

An actor is looking for conflict. Conflict is what creates drama. We are taught to avoid trouble [so] actors don't realize they must go looking for it. Plays are written about...the extraordinary, the unusual, the climaxes. The more conflict actors find, the more interesting the performance.

Consistency is the death of good acting.

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