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

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

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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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All tedious research is worth one inspired moment.

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Keep pace with the present. Take a trip to the moon. envision the future.

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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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