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

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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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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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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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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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I have disassociated myself from that book.

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