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

"There is a difference between talented people and gifted people.Talented people are good AT something, Gifted people ARE that something."

"You need to find your gift, something you are doing better than others."

"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."

"With people of limited ability modesty is merely honesty. But with those who possess great talent it is hypocrisy."

"If you have the ability to see the things behind the scenes, then you have the greatest talent one can ever have because there is almost always something else behind the things!"
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"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."

"The ideas of the great playwrights are almost always larger than the experiences of even the best actors."

"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 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."

"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."
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