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"When you know what an actor has, you can reach in and arouse it. If you don't know what he has, you don't know what the hell is going on."
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"I was fortunate as a young actor, to go straight to the RSC, where I learned that being an actor can bring with it wonderful responsibilities."
"The great actors are the luminous ones. They are the great conductors of the stage."
"It confirms for me that we did something on Days that meant something. We had our ups and downs, but Missy and I and some of the other actors, created something that was really memorable."
"The actor's popularity is evanescent; applauded today, forgotten tomorrow."
"The best thing about switching from being an actor to being a director is that you don't have to shave or hold your stomach in anymore."
"As I was coming up on the stage, there was one source that could make or break you, the New York Times. Inevitably there would be one actor singled out for a better review, or worse, than somebody else. The effect of that was cancerous, divisive."
"Then I got out of the service, and I was going to be a Shakespearean actor."
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"I gave my life to the Group Theatre, because in it I'm building something for myself. What I build, I am."
"For years after I resigned, I was still faithful to their way of thinking. But not in the American Communists."
"I have no spy stories to tell, because I saw no spies. Nor did I understand, at that time, any opposition between American and Russian national interest."
"I wouldn't go up on a stage now if you paid a thousand dollars for one minute of acting. It's a nasty experience. You're up there all by yourself. You're so damn exposed."
"Acting... was the biggest charge I ever had. What other artist has it so good? Approval so quick?"
"There was no doubt that there was a vast organization which was making fools of all the liberals in Hollywood and taking their money, that there was a police state among the Left element in Hollywood and Broadway."
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