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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 apologize for being obvious, but every time I watch the curtain come down on even a halfway decent production of a Shakespeare play I feel a little sorrowful that I'll never know the man, or any man of such warm intelligence."

"I take the theater seriously in that I loathe it, I'm bored by it."

"I did theater at Carnegie, and in Pittsburgh and New York."

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

"Theatre can't be done again and again and again and again - it's organic."

"No, I knew when I was doing theater in New York that this was what I was supposed to be doing."

"Many of the Universities have very good Theatre Departments these days."
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"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."

"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."

"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."

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

"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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