Whatever you decide is your motivation in the scene, the opposite of that is also true and should be in it.

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.

Every scene you will ever act begins in the middle, and it is up to you, the actor, to provide what comes before.

Why should I be afraid to trust myself to you? I am not afraid, I have been well brought forward by you...

So when it comes to Elvis and Joe, I have to trust my instincts, because they’ve gotten me here. And I have to write what I believe in, what I find moving.

Poetry": What kind of art assumes the dislike of its audience and what kind of artist aligns herself with that dislike, even encourages it? An art hated from without and within.

It will take a long time for women's effect on politics to register so that we may properly appraise it.

To dare, and again dare, and forever dare!

Action indeed is the sole medium of expression for ethics.

Happiness is a Slurpee and a hot pink straw.

My preoccupation has been from the very beginning that I believe that the "Brexit" referendum result is the most disastrous peacetime result that we've seen in Britain.

Heroism feels and never reasons, and therefore is always right.

If you haven't got it. Fake it! Too short? Wear big high heels, but do practice walking!