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

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.

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

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.

Music is the building block for things yet to come.

Everything is acceptable until we stop accepting them.

The notion of a defense that will protect American cities is one that will not be achieved, but it is that goal that supplies the political magic, as it were, in the president's vision.

I soon came to the point where I didn't know whether my smiling face was a lie or not. -Lavi

Jimmie Johnson is putting a whoopin' on everybody!

Amiability is the redeeming quality of fools.

Everyone gives the title of barbarism to everything that is not in use in his own country.

A Painting without emotion is like a tree without roots.

It is true that whisky improves with age. The older I get, the more I like it.

You have to set goals that are almost out of reach. If you set a goal that is attainable without much work or thought, you are stuck with something below your true talent and potential.