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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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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All tedious research is worth one inspired moment.

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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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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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We were not allowed to say, Screw, but we could say, Hump the hostess, because hump is in Shakespeare.

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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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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

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I have disassociated myself from that book.

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