"All the best performers bring to their role something more, something different than what the author put on paper. That's what makes theatre live. That's why it persists."

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"All the best performers bring to their role something more, something different than what the author put on paper. That's what makes theatre live. That's why it persists."

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"Every writer I've ever spoken to feels fraudulent in some way or other."

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"The worst thing you can do is censor yourself as the pencil hits the paper. You must not edit until you get it all on paper. If you can put everything down, stream-of-consciousness, you'll do yourself a service."

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"Everyone I used to play with has either given up or is dead."

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