"I acted in junior high in the junior high school group, and then when I got into senior high I was, you know, the main actor of the senior high school."

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"I acted in junior high in the junior high school group, and then when I got into senior high I was, you know, the main actor of the senior high school."

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"I've always known I wanted to be an actor. It never crossed my mind to be anything else. I think I probably decided for sure when I saw 'Sounder'."

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"You know what I would like to do: make a film with actors standing in empty space so that the spectator would have to imagine the background of the characters."

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"Today some actors get a little full of themselves about what they're doing."

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"Because even at the age of fifteen, I used to go see all the Broadway shows and feel that they were sentimental, that they were pandering to the audience and trying to manipulate the audience. I had no use for practically any of the shows that were hits."

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"All the dialogue on tape, and we'd play the tape in performance. Then I thought it'd be interesting if the actor's repeated what they heard on the tape, but at a slower speed, so we'd get a web of language."

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"As I told you, from the time I was fifteen, I thought the theater was too much involved with actors trying to make the audience love them, being over emotional."

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"Now, when I started my theater, the modus operandi was having the actors stare right into the audience."

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"I realized that I had to be honest about where I was, where I was coming from, and what I was trying to do."

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"What really happened was one day I decided to write a new kind of play."

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"From that time through the time I was a New Dramatist, when I was something like twenty-two, I saw absolutely everything in New York. Absolutely everything."

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"It's true, I don't like the real world."

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"I'm there to make a kind of theatrical music that is desperately missing in my life. And if other people don't like it, I'm very unhappy, but I can't do anything about that."

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"If I wasn't in the theater, I would be a hermit."

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