Organized money hates me--and I welcome their hatred!
Whatever you decide is your motivation in the scene, the opposite of that is also true and should be in it.
Listening is not merely hearing. Listening is reacting. Listening is being affected by what you hear. Listening is active.
Competition 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 good actor is the one who competes, willingly, who enjoys competing. An actor must compete, or die. . . Peacefulness and the avoidance of trouble won't help in his acting. It is just the opposite he must seek.
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.
I have learned God doesn't always change those people we want Him to change; instead, He often uses them to change us.
I wake up at 4:15 A. M. , get some coffee, turn on the news, see what's happening, go clickety-clack on the web to see what I missed overnight. Then I go to the gym, around 5:15, and I do what appears to be a very light workout, but who cares. I'm socializing with other nice people at the gym. Then I go into work, and I'm really awake.
It happened in New York, April 10th, nineteen years ago. Even my hand balks at the date. I had to push to write it down, just to keep the pen moving on the paper. It used to be a perfectly ordinary day, but now it sticks up on the calendar like a rusty nail.
When you get to be my age, you begin to count how many Mays you have left - the best time of year for flowers and birds in North America.