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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.
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.
If you want a bourgeois existence, you shouldn't be an actor. You're in the wrong profession.
To rebel or revolt against the status quo is in the very nature of an artist.
I have disassociated myself from that book.
We were not allowed to say, Screw, but we could say, Hump the hostess, because hump is in Shakespeare.
The need to be loved and protected is at a peak when we feel abandoned and are particularly vulnerable to difficult circumstances.
no work of art is ever finished, nothing is ever static, no performance is for keeps.
I love going to the movies; I love watching good movie actors. They must know something I don't.
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.
