We had a relationship that lasted 44 years. Herbert and I lived together 10 years before we were married. He always gave me a little heart for whatever anniversary.

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The actor must know that since he, himself, is the instrument, he must play on it to serve the character with the same effortless dexterity with which the violinist makes music on his. Just because he doesn't look like a violin is no reason to assume his techniques should be thought of as less difficult.

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All tedious research is worth one inspired moment.

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If you want a bourgeois existence, you shouldn't be an actor. You're in the wrong profession.

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To rebel or revolt against the status quo is in the very nature of an artist.

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Talent is an amalgam of high sensitivity; easy vulnerability; high sensory equipment (seeing, hearing, touching, smelling, tasting intensely); a vivid imagination as well as a grip on reality; the desire to communicate one's own experience and sensations, to make one's self heard and seen.

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We were not allowed to say, Screw, but we could say, Hump the hostess, because hump is in Shakespeare.

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Once in a while, there's stuff that makes me say, That's what theatre's about. It has to be a human event on the stage, and that doesn't happen very often.

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I love playing Chekhov. That's the hardest; that's why I love it most.

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One cannot demand of art that it pay you in any other way than in the satisfaction of the work itself.

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