It must be noted that it is often the colleague or direct disciple of a new thinker who gets stuck in literal interpretations of the work, tending to freeze the new ideas and language into an inflexible, static condition.

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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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The knowledge that every day there is something more to learn, something higher to reach for, something new to make for others, makes each day infinitely precious

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

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

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Thoughts and feelings are suspended in a vacuum unless they instigate and feed the selected actions, and it is the characters actions which reveal the character in the play.

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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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I love going to the movies; I love watching good movie actors. They must know something I don't.

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I have disassociated myself from that book.

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All tedious research is worth one inspired moment.

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