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"1988 I also received from the city of Vienna the cross of honour for art and science. These titles and the various honors mean a great deal to me, most of all for the reason that they would mean a great deal to my parents too."
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"I live, love and loathe my characters. They stole my mind. They stole my heart."
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"Art is always in the eyes of the beholder. Only posterity has the right to point out our mistakes."
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"Is art really the priesthood that demands the pure in heart who belong to it wholly?"
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"Perhaps this is the purpose of all art, all writing, on the murders, fiction and non-fiction: Simply to participate."
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"Science, like art, religion, commerce, warfare, and even sleep, is based on presuppositions."
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"Treat a work of art like a prince. Let it speak to you first."
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"The vitality of a new movement in Art must be gauged by the fury it arouses."
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"The aim of all commentary on art now should be to make works of art - and, by analogy, our own experience - more, rather than less, real to us. The function of criticism should be to show how it is what it is, even that it is what it is, rather than to show what it means."
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"Create with the heart, build with the mind."
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"If a man devotes himself to art, much evil is avoided that happens otherwise if one is idle."
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"From that moment on I knew my profession in life was and has remained until today an actor's life."
Life
"My father was an ardent socialist for many years."
Father
"We wanted to bring the political situation in Austria on stage. Naturally we could not do that without pointing to Austrian's northern neighbor Germany."
Germany
"1988 I also received from the city of Vienna the cross of honour for art and science. These titles and the various honors mean a great deal to me, most of all for the reason that they would mean a great deal to my parents too."
Art
"Unfortunately I put the opening date on the 5th of December 1941 and on the 7th of December the Japanese bombarded Pearl Harbour. My dream of a theater in Washington D.C. came to a prompt end."
Dream
"It was one of the great chances in my life to become a Dumont actor."
Life
"A Dumont actor was considered to be too stilted - the way we Dumont actors used to speak."
Actor
"I was put in the Air Corps. I was never educated to serve in the military, but soon my activities in the American Air Corps became very interesting to me."
American
"The interest of my mother was more in the entertainment field. She loved to go to concerts and to the theatre."
Mother
"Especially for my father it was a great change. He used to be a socialist and even a member of the socialist party. But then he became an orthodox Jew."
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