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"Tell yourself that the world is outside, that it's not to be hidden from you, that you are going to thrust yourself forward and be relaxed in the world. You have chosen a field where you're going to be hurt to the blood. But to retreat from the pain is death"
"Today the influences of your society pressure you to be successful before your time. They are pulling you down. They have pulled you down, you big, sweet, magnificent, young, potential artists. They have pulled you down so far that you are on the verge of destruction. Only you don't know it because you want to be a success"
"Don’t use your conscious past. Use your creative imagination to create a past that belongs to your character. I don’t want you to be stuck with your own life. It’s too little."
"The word theatre comes from the Greeks. It means the seeing place."
"Life is boring. The weather is boring. Actors must not be boring."
"Growth as an actor and as a human being are synonymous."
"The play is not in the words, it’s in you!"
"You'll never really be great unless you aim high."
"The theatre is a spiritual and social X-ray of its time."
"The imagination is closer to the actor than real life-more agreeable, more comfortable."
"Your job as actors is to understand the size of what you say, to understand what's beneath the word."
"By taking elements you observe in life, you can develop qualities in your acting life that you don't ordinarily call upon in your personal life."
"An addict is someone who uses their body to tell society that something is wrong."
"The theatre-acting, creating, interpreting - means total involvement, the totality of heart, mind and spirit."
"The actor must be full of passion. If he's too cool he's better off as the manager of a company, not someone who appears on the stage."
"Be innocent, wise and ninety-five."
"When you most succeed, you do so by seeming not to act at all."
"The ideas of the great playwrights are almost always larger than the experiences of even the best actors."
"Life in the theatre isn't necessarily when you get money from performing. It isn't when you sign a contract. It isn't even when you are in a play. It's when you understand it. If you understand it, you'll know why you want to act."
"It's not important to know who you are. It's important to know what you do, and then to do it like hercules!"