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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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.

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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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no work of art is ever finished, nothing is ever static, no performance is for keeps.

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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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The need to be loved and protected is at a peak when we feel abandoned and are particularly vulnerable to difficult circumstances.

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

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All tedious research is worth one inspired moment.

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

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