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

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.

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.

Hope is an anchor.

I am perfectly sane. But then again, 94% of psychotics think they are perfectly sane. So we have to ask ourselves, what is sane?

Peace of mind for five minutes, that's what I crave.

If that's what you're thinking, then don't even question it. Go let your freak flag fly, brother.

Even if I have only ten more years in front of me, it's such an intensive life. I have the feeling that I have already lived three lives in three years.

Is there anything more tedious than the often repeated tales of the old and forgetful?

Some paint comes across directly onto the nervous system and other paint tells you the story in a long diatribe through the brain.

I saw the lightnings gleaming rod. Reach forth and write upon the sky The awful autograph of God.

Loss is essential. Loss is part and parcel of that necessary calamity called life.

The resurrection was God's way of stamping PAID IN FULL right across history so that nobody could miss it.