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"The instinct to impersonate produces the actor; the desire to provide pleasure by impersonations produces the playwright; the desire to provide this pleasure with adequate characterization and dialogue memorable in itself produces dramatic literature."
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"My college training was primarily in theatre, with an eye to becoming a director, actor, or producer."
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"You know, whatever happens between the two of us that's created when we come together as actors is not something I think we can explain."
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"I watch actors destroy themselves by trying to get it right."
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"A lot of talented actors still have to pay their bills."
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"I'm not like one of those actors who's a frustrated director."
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"I couldn't have left my career as an actor on a better note than to have done a cameo in the Lost In Space movie. Doing this part is the highlight of my career. What a way to leave the profession!"
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"I'm an actor who hates dialogue and the present day and reality."
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"For no. 1, it's great writing, super writing. The second thing is that it's great chemistry with all the actors. We just all got along from the very start. Very get-go, we all got along. We just - it was just like we were all meant to be there together."
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"I've turned my guest house into this little studio, and we have actors come over and do readings."
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"Being an actor on a movie set is like going to the playground at recess."
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"Out of the past come the standards for judging the present; standards in turn to be shaped by the practice of present-day dramatists into broader standards for the next generation."
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"In the best farce today we start with some absurd premise as to character or situation, but if the premises be once granted we move logically enough to the ending."
Character
"The drama is a great revealer of life."
Life
"But what is drama? Broadly speaking, it is whatever by imitative action rouses interest or gives pleasure."
Action
"The instinct to impersonate produces the actor; the desire to provide pleasure by impersonations produces the playwright; the desire to provide this pleasure with adequate characterization and dialogue memorable in itself produces dramatic literature."
Actor
"In all the great periods of the drama perfect freedom of choice and subject, perfect freedom of individual treatment, and an audience eager to give itself to sympathetic listening, even if instruction be involved, have brought the great results."
Choice
"Sensitive, responsive, eagerly welcomed everywhere, the drama, holding the mirror up to nature, by laughter and by tears reveals to mankind the world of men."
Men
"Rare is the human being, immature or mature, who has never felt an impulse to pretend he is some one or something else."
Being
"In reading plays, however, it should always be remembered that any play, however great, loses much when not seen in action."
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"Acted drama requires surrender of one's self, sympathetic absorption in the play as it develops."
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