"Your talent is in your choice."
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"The ultimate aim of the training is to create an actor who can be responsible for his artistic development and achievement."
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"You have to get beyond your own precious inner experiences. The actor cannot afford to look only to his own life for all his material nor pull strictly from his own experience to find his acting choices and feelings. The ideas of the great playwrights are almost always larger than the experiences of even the best actors."
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"Acting is in everything but the words."
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"I would live in a communist country providing I was the Queen."
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"The most important thing you can teach actors is to understand plays."
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"The best author is a dead author, because he's out of your way and you own the play. Take what he has given you and use it for what you need."
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"If you can't take both sides, it means you can only play yourself."
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"No actor is a success unless he feels inside himself, as long as he lives, that he is good."
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"Our heritage as actors goes back thousands of years, and we have to feel as comfortable in the clothes, and the language of Sophocles as we do in our sneakers."
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"You cannot afford to confine your studies to the classroom. The universe and all of history is your classroom."
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