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.

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

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

Consistency is the death of good acting.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Fool, there is no sense in trying to play that game with the past. Here is where we are today, and we can only make our moves from here.

When one individual comes into intimate contact with another, she—or he, of course, as the case may be—must almost inevitably receive or inflict suffering.

I saw the end of his life right there in that single moment. His pride, his decency, his secrets, his death.

For years I lived rather medicated and muted - I did not possess language to describe my vague feelings of unhappiness, to politicize it, to attempt to transcend it.

If one wants another only for some self-satisfaction, usually in the form of sensual pleasure, that wrong desire takes the form of lust rather than love.

I am astonished at the pleasure one experiences in doing good; and I should be tempted to believe that what we call virtuous people have not so much merit as they lead us to suppose.

It's like trying to pin down a kangaroo on a trampoline.

I like shirts and sweaters that fall off the shoulder or plaid button-ups.

When people say, 'I believe in Jesus', look them straight in the eye and ask, 'Which one?'

I'd rather have that dialogue right now than only the other one, which is starting at such a basic level, that we start rearranging stuff on the Titanic, trying to be less bad with ordinary stuff.