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

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.

Dear Church, everyone is broken, stop pretending like you're not.

Crazy and insane are words used throughout history to describe people and ideas that are simply different.

[N]o American should retreat an inch on the right of jurors to acquit if they perceive the law or its administration to be unjust.

Without "The Law of Moses" would we all be wandering around like little gods, stealing, raping, and spilling blood whenever our vanity was offended?

By believing in his dreams, man turns them into reality.

The difference between a movie star and a movie actor is this - a movie star will say, 'How can I change the script to suit me?' and a movie actor will say. 'How can I change me to suit the script?'

Being a Christian means renouncing ourselves, taking up the cross and carrying it with Jesus. There is no other way.

Arty farty, you'll never fool your Aunt, who knew you picked your nose and wet your pants.

As many arrows, loosed several ways, come to one mark...so many a thousand actions, once afoot, end in one purpose.