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

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

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.

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

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.

Men are driven by two principal impulses, either by love or by fear.

A tame horse contributes much more to life than a wild one. Energy out of control is dangerous

We are a race prone to monsters, she thought, and when we produce one we worship it.

She poured us some more Scotch. It didn't seem to affect her any more than water affects Boulder Dam.

you'll never get tired of loving when you enjoy the feeling of being in love..

When my soul fainted within me ... my prayer came in unto thee.

There's a lot of producers that are much more technical or gear-skilled than I am. But I have a pure idea of what I like and where I want to go and I follow that.

Its always a little different, racing on your hometown track. It makes it more special.

President Obama has deported millions and millions of people just the way it is.

I think people should consume their music any way they want. If it's more practical for them to listen to it on an iPod or something, that's fine by me.