One very sobering feature of teaching is to stand up on your soapbox and claim a Truth of Acting – only to have to eat or at least modify your words a few days later. You think by now I would have all of speeches, lined up and verified – – but not so . . Perhaps one reason that I keep coming back is that the flaws in my teaching appear every day – causing 22 years of re-writes. My advice to new teachers joining the profession, “Know that you will be wrong a lot, admit it freely to the class, and get back on that horse of teaching.” And now my advice for students, “Never trust a teacher who claims to KNOW what they are teaching – they should be questioning their knowledge every day to retirement.” Read more