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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 were not allowed to say, Screw, but we could say, Hump the hostess, because hump is in Shakespeare.
If you want a bourgeois existence, you shouldn't be an actor. You're in the wrong profession.
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.
I love going to the movies; I love watching good movie actors. They must know something I don't.
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.
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
I love playing Chekhov. That's the hardest; that's why I love it most.
The need to be loved and protected is at a peak when we feel abandoned and are particularly vulnerable to difficult circumstances.
I have disassociated myself from that book.
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.