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Theoretically, the actor ought to be more sound in mind and body than other people, since he learns to understand the psychological problems of human beings when putting his own passions, his loves, fears, and rages to work in the service of the characters he plays. He will learn to face himself, to hide nothing from himself- and to do so takes AN INSATIABLE CURIOSITY ABOUT THE HUMAN CONDITION
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If you want a bourgeois existence, you shouldn't be an actor. You're in the wrong profession.
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
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.
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.
All tedious research is worth one inspired moment.
We were not allowed to say, Screw, but we could say, Hump the hostess, because hump is in Shakespeare.
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.
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.
I have disassociated myself from that book.
One cannot demand of art that it pay you in any other way than in the satisfaction of the work itself.
