She argues that the best acting often comes from working with children or animals because they bring an essential honesty to the performance.

“people say don't work with animals and children you must only work with animals and children because that's where the honesty exists”

He believes that actors should not intellectualize their work too much, preferring to do the work internally through personal reflection and connection to music.

“I don't like to talk too much about it I don't like to talk too much yeah you know about yourself and you just do the work yourself I do the work myself I do my work in the hotel room and I mean bad at night and going up for a hike and thinking and finding a piece of music that stirs me”

Actors need to let go of the need to be fully prepared and be willing to leap into action before they feel ready to perform.

“There's a practice of just walk before you're ready to walk. Just say the line before you're ready to say the line.”

Actors should be observers of the world and engage in small daily interactions with others to gain fuel for their work.

“I will ask the young lady who's just ringing me up how are you today and she says oh well thanks for asking how I good and I just try to have a small conversation of being connected and the world for me because I think that's what I need as fuel right to do the work that I'm doing”

The actor must lose themselves in a performance by setting aside their own persona.

“my whole thing was about losing myself in the performance but now I'm bringing Jacob a Lordi to a performance which was such a heady kind of trippy thing so I had to kind of I've been in the process of losing that trying to ignore it trying to shake it as it grows kind of bigger and louder”

Actors must maintain a balance between being spontaneous in their performance and adhering to the technical constraints and specific timing required by the production.

“you're having to bring all that like spontaneity and nuance and all that kind of stuff. but into a framework. Yeah. And keep it Yeah, exactly. That's keep it sort of spontaneous, but exactly the same thing as we did yesterday.”

Actors need to listen to their scene partners and remain present to keep their performances fresh during long-running productions.

“it really makes you like I have to really listen and find something new all the time cuz if I'm like phoning it in, then I'm going to stretch the I've got like 13.3 seconds to say this line.”

The primary goal of acting is to perform a story that leaves a meaningful impact on the audience.

“my main focus is has it affected people has it left an impact um did I do the best I could and did I tell the truth and I just leave it at that”