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"Unless the theatre can ennoble you, make you a better person, you should flee from it."
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"I am married to the theater, and the films are only my mistress."

"I come from a TV background, so for me this more like doing a freeing theatre piece because we'd go into a room and do the scene, instead of doing it as a wide shot, medium shot, and close up with only the odd line of dialogue."

"A few years later, my Uncle David took me to the Earle Theatre to hear Duke Ellington."

"There was no professional theater in Cork, but still I did a lot of performing."

"I'm from the theater. I never wanted to be a star."

"I grew up wanting to be a writer for theatre."

"Unless the theatre can ennoble you, make you a better person, you should flee from it."
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"Our demands are simple, normal, and therefore they are difficult to satisfy. All we ask is that an actor on the stage live in accordance with natural laws."

"Create your own method. Don't depend slavishly on mine. Make up something that will work for you! But keep breaking traditions, I beg you."

"Talent is nothing but a prolonged period of attention and a shortened period of mental assimilation."

"We have as many planes of speech as does a painting planes of perspective which create perspective in a phrase. The most important word stands out most vividly defined in the very foreground of the sound plane. Less important words create a series of deeper planes."

"The main factor in any form of creativeness is the life of a human spirit, that of the actor and his part, their joint feelings and subconscious creation."
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