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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."
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"Well, I suppose that, in a sense, every screen role is a favourite with me."

"I carried out my orders until arrested. I had no sense that I was spying, and I ask that this be taken into account in deciding my verdict."

"The calling of the humanities is to make us truly human in the best sense of the word."

"It was a scene in the sense that we were all close and we all knew each other before the different bands had really formed. We used to rehearse in the same place."

"A poem conveys not a message so much as the provenance of a message, an advent of sense."

"I think only of objects: of a leg or an arm, of the wonderful sense of foreshortening, breaking through the plane, of the division of space, of the combination of straight lines in relation to curved ones."

"A lot of bands that reunite do it for the wrong reasons. They do it for the bucks and everybody can sense it."

"Hemingway was a prisoner of his style. No one can talk like the characters in Hemingway except the characters in Hemingway. His style in the wildest sense finally killed him."

"I do read everything that we publish. We usually have to have two or three votes for a book before we take it on. So in that sense I suppose it is an orchestra."
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"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."


"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."


"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."
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