Acting in a scene is like paddling a canoe from a pebbly beach on to the river, the writer builds the canoe, and the actor provides the river. The river is the actor's thoughts and emotions.

Being an actor is a religious calling because you've been given the ability, the gift to inspire humanity. Think about that on the way to your soap opera audition.

Acting is the ability to live truthfully under the given imaginary circumstances

Your acting will not be good until it is only yours. That's true of music, acting, anything creative. You work until finally nobody is acting like you.

You don't pick up cues, you pick up impulses.

If you want to reach every person in the audience, it's not about being bigger, it's about going deeper.

Find in yourself those human things which are universal.