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

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.

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.

With him everything is a test, affection is measured, that given weighed against that which has been received, and the balance, more often than not, disappointing him.

Everything changes as you get older - your mind, your body, the way you view the world.

Truly, spiritual courage is on the endangered character-quality list.

Death comes to us, under many conditions, with all the welcome serenity of sleep.

The most important thing for a director is being able to communicate.

I'm at a point where I let my mind go with flow of the music I'm making and it's not interrupted by me trying to please everybody.

It's awkward, because sometimes you find new friends that are cooler than your old friends, and then your old friends desperately try to cling on to you even though you sort of hate them by now.

The future isn't something hidden in a corner.The future is something we build in the present.

You look older.” “Yes, well. The passage of time tends to do that to a person.

A purely disembodied human emotion is a nonentity.