Competition [in a scene] is healthy. Competition is life. Yet most actors refuse to acknowledge this. They don't want to compete. They want to get along. And they are therefore not first-rate actors.

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.

Stand up to ignorance, because if you don't, the ignorant will run free to spread ignorance like a disease.

It is the camp law: people going to their death must be deceived to the very end.

Politics is so difficult, it's generally only people who aren't quite up to the task who feel convinced they are.

My thesis [is] that in order to design a tool, we must make our best efforts to understand the larger social and physical context within which it is intended to function

Every game I played against Henri Richard, he'd come up to behind me at some point and say, 'My brother's better than your brother.'

We will have to create an avant-garde.... We could have a Union for the enlarged Europe, and a Federation for the avant-garde.

I still have so much passion to perform... That's who Johnny Weir is: I'm a figure skater, I'm an athlete. I want to have fun and enjoy it.

I take making music seriously, but you have to have a sense of humor about yourself. I invite people into my life. That's how I do it.

I usually just get into a police character by drinking coffee and eating donuts, but those days are over.

On the 8th day, God created Mankind. Why was he having such a bad day? Why did he create all of you normal... but forget so many important parts of me?