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To go into acting is like asking for admission to an insane asylum. Anyone may apply, but only the certifiably insane are admitted.

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

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

Listening is not merely hearing. Listening is reacting. Listening is being affected by what you hear. Listening is active.

Conflict is drama.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

Consistency is the death of good acting.

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

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.

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

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

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

An expression of feeling isn't worth anything unless it interferes with what the other actor in the scene wants.

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

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

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