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"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."
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"Experience is not worth the getting. It's not a thing that happens pleasantly to a passive you--it's a wall that an active you runs up against."
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"A misadventure is an act that has a safer, less self-detrimental, less interesting alternative. But you choose that act because you want to do something memorable and worthy of discussion."
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"How long does the experience of pleasure or pain stay with you? For as long as there is weakness within. Then, further ahead they will not be there. There, one remains the 'Knower' of experience of pleasure and pain."
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"Life is a book. Read it. But do not forget to write yours."
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"At least I can say I once worked a day on a tea plantation in Far North Queensland."
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"Simultaneously the whole party moved toward the water, super-ready from the long, forced inaction, passing from the heat to the cool with the gourmandise of a tingling curry eaten with chilled white wine."
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"Now that he wanted to feel like he was having a bad dream, he wasn't. He was having a bad reality, and that was something from which you could not wake."
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"Mr Lorry asks the witness questions:Ever been kicked? Might have been.Frequently? No. Ever kicked down stairs? Decidedly not; once received a kick at the top of a staircase, and fell down stairs of his own accord."
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"Elders in the dark see better than children in the light."
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"Beyond these moments, she could hardly count the fumbling ministrations of boys in high school who, even to her senior prom, never went beyond sticky pleasantries. With one exception, it was just a sort of half-clothed handshake for bragging rights, none hers."
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"One way we can enliven the imagination is to push it toward the illogical. We're not scientists. We don't always have to make the logical, reasonable leap."
Imagination
"The theatre was created to tell people the truth about life and the social situation."
Life
"The word theatre comes from the Greeks. It means the seeing place. It is the place people come to see the truth about life and the social situation."
Life
"A junkie is someone who uses their body to tell society that something is wrong."
Society
"The ideas of the great playwrights are almost always larger than the experiences of even the best actors."
Ideas
"The theatre is a spiritual and social X-ray of its time."
Time
"The play is not in the words, it's in you!"
Play
"The actor has to develop his body. The actor has to work on his voice. But the most important thing the actor has to work on is his mind."
Work
"Life beats down and crushes the soul and art reminds you that you have one."
Art
"Your talent is in your choice."
Talent
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