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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 need to be loved and protected is at a peak when we feel abandoned and are particularly vulnerable to difficult circumstances.
For some strange reason, we believe that anyone who lived before we were born was in some peculiar way a different kind of human being from any we have come in contact with in our own lifetime. This concept must be changed; we must realize in our bones that almost everything in time and history has changed except the human being.
I have disassociated myself from that book.
We were not allowed to say, Screw, but we could say, Hump the hostess, because hump is in Shakespeare.
I love going to the movies; I love watching good movie actors. They must know something I don't.
I love playing Chekhov. That's the hardest; that's why I love it most.
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.
Keep pace with the present. Take a trip to the moon. envision the future.
One cannot demand of art that it pay you in any other way than in the satisfaction of the work itself.
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.
