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"The purpose of work is to labor and invest time in your gift."

"Bolts work on nuts; pens work on paper. But you must work on yourself. Go, get working!"

"Personally, I feel that in my own work I wanted to look programmed or impersonal but I don't really believe I am being impersonal when I do it. And I don't think you could do this."

"And uh, I'm glad that I still have my hands and my eyes to work with."

"In North Carolina nobody bothers us; we're all about concentrating on the work or our auditions that we're trying to get a flight out for. So all that crap is not something that I'm confronted with on a daily basis."
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"When you stand on the stage you must have a sense that you are addressing the whole world, and that what you say is so important the whole world must listen."


"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."


"The ideas of the great playwrights are almost always larger than the experiences of even the best actors."


"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 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."
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