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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 grew up wanting to be a writer for theatre."
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"Then I went off to Southern Methodist University in Dallas. They had a really wonderful theatre department."
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"The play was a great success but the audience was a disaster."
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"Having started out in theatre, I feel an impulse to do it as much as I can."
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"You can only do so much theatre."
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"I think there is no world without theatre."
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"I'm looking for one of two things and sometimes they dovetail: I'm looking to go into a theatre and see a certain kind of show. And if it's not there, I'd like to do it myself so it would be there."
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"The theatre, our theatre, comes from the Greeks."
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"Once in awhile, there's stuff that makes me say, That's what theatre's about. It has to be a human event on the stage, and that doesn't happen very often."
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"I'm married to the theater but my mistress is the films."
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"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."
Life
"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."
Work
"Love the art in yourself and not yourself in the art."
Art
"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."
Actor
"Unless the theatre can ennoble you, make you a better person, you should flee from it."
Theatre
"The greatest wisdom is to realize one's lack of it."
Wisdom
"Remember: there are no small parts, only small actors."
Actor
"Talent is nothing but a prolonged period of attention and a shortened period of mental assimilation."
Talent
"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."
Painting
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