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"Your talent is in your choice."
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"Moderate giftedness has been made worthless by the printing press and radio and television and satellites and all that. A moderately gifted person who would have been a community treasure a thousand years ago has to give up, has to go into some other line of work, since modern communications put him or her into daily competition with nothing but the world's champions."

"We're all geniuses. Life is merely overpopulated with singers who play drums, and, drummers who sing, to pay rent."

"There is only one school of literature - that of talent."

"Certain abilities in you sometimes yearn to be expressed."

"That boy is talented. You don't develop those gifts in houses or in schools."
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"When you stand on the stage you must have a sense that you are addressing the whole world, and that what you say is so important the whole world must listen."


"The word theatre comes from the Greeks. It means the seeing place. It is the place people come to see the truth about life and the social situation."


"The actor has to develop his body. The actor has to work on his voice. But the most important thing the actor has to work on is his mind."


"One way we can enliven the imagination is to push it toward the illogical. We're not scientists. We don't always have to make the logical, reasonable leap."


"The actor cannot afford to look only to his own life for all his material nor pull strictly from his own experience to find his acting choices and feelings."
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