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"There's something about the theater which makes my fingertips tingle."
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"I apologize for being obvious, but every time I watch the curtain come down on even a halfway decent production of a Shakespeare play I feel a little sorrowful that I'll never know the man, or any man of such warm intelligence."
"I take the theater seriously in that I loathe it, I'm bored by it."
"I did theater at Carnegie, and in Pittsburgh and New York."
"I always go back to theatre. It's probably where I'll draw my last breath."
"I'm from the theater. I never wanted to be a star."
"We may have limped onto Broadway as the underdogs, but underdogs bite back occasionally."
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"I found, when I left, that there were others who felt the same way. We'd meet, they'd come and seek me out, we'd talk about the future. And I found that their depression and pessimism was every bit as acute as mine."
"But when you're deprived of it for a lengthy period then you value human companionship. But you have to survive and so you devise all kinds of mental exercises and it's amazing."
"I'm not one of those writers I learned about who get up in the morning, put a piece of paper in their typewriter machine and start writing. That I've never understood."
"There are different kinds of artists and very often, I'll be very frank with you, I wish I were a different kind."
"There's a kind of dynamic quality about theater and that dynamic quality expresses itself in relation to, first of all, the environment in which it's being staged; then the audience, the nature of the audience, the quality of the audience."
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