If we lived for reality, we'd be dead, every last one of us. Only dreams keep us going.

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.

Like Cammie is fine," Macey said, then glanced at me. "No offense." "None taken," I said. "I think.

If our lives are made up of a string of a thousand moments, at some of those moments we look a lot more spiritually evolved than at others.

Armor yourself in it, and it will never be used against you

We print money. The people that print the money is actually us. The government of the United States of America. By its very nature, we control that, and this system is there as representation of us.

We know too much for one man to know too much.

Someone's always saying, "It's not whether you win or lose," but if you feel that way, you're as good as dead.

He says one word, nodding into the daylight. "Look." It's an astounding word. It's a gift.

Scatman, fat man, black and white and brown man, tell me 'bout the color of your soul.

In our civilization, men are afraid that they will not be men enough and women are afraid that they might be considered only women.

My first poem was a bolt from the blue … it broke a spell of disillusion and suicidal despondence. ... it filled me with soul satisfying joy.