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

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….

Every scene you will ever act begins in the middle, and it is up to you, the actor, to provide what comes before..

Creating relationship is the heart of acting. It is basic. It is essential..

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..

No matter how much we know about the other person, there is always something going on in that other heart and that other head that we don't know but ….

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

Acting in theatre or television or screen is only for the irrecoverably diseased, those so smitten with the need that there is no choice..

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

Listening is not merely hearing, it is receiving the message that is being sent to you. Listening is reacting. Listening is being affected by what yo….

An actor must make his needs (goals, wants, objectives) so strong that he is willing to interfere with the other actor in order to get what he needs.….

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

Actors, who should pride themselves on their singularity, are forever trying to be someone else. It isn’t necessary for you, the actor, to like yours….

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

We don't live for realities, but for the fantasies, the dreams of what might be. If we lived for reality, we'd be dead, every last one of us. Only dr….

Often actors ask me if I think they should go on trying to be an actor. I have the same answer for everyone who asks: If you have a choice and could….

Humor [in a scene] is not jokes. It is that attitude toward being alive without which you would long ago have jumped off the 59th Street Bridge..

Consistency is the death of good acting..

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

Take nothing for granted. Make an emotional discovery as often as you can find one in every scene. Ask yourself: What is new?.