Human resources are the most valuable assets the world has. They are all needed desperately.
There's only one reason why a character drinks: to seek confrontation. To fight for what they want in ways normally denied them.
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.
Fame grows like a tree if it have the principle of growth in it; the accumulated dews of ages freshen its leaves.
There are few things wholly evil or wholly good. Almost everything, especially of government policy, is an inseparable compound of the two, so that our best judgment of the preponderance between them is continually demanded.
It is not with a rush and a spring that we are to reach Christ's character, and attain to perfect saintship; but step by step, foot by foot, hand over hand, we are slowly and often painfully to mount the ladder that rests on earth, and rises to heaven.
We live in an age in which there is no heroic death.