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This concept must be changed; we must realize in our bones that almost everything in time and history has changed except the human being.

Uta Hagen

Talent is an amalgam of high sensitivity; easy vulnerability; high sensory equipment (seeing, hearing, touching, smelling, tasting intensely); a vivid imagination as well as a grip on reality; the desire to communicate one’s own experience and sensations, to make one’s self heard and seen.
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Amalgam Equipment High Sensitivity Sensory Talent Vivid Vulnerability
Thoughts and feelings are suspended in a vacuum unless they instigate and feed the selected actions, and it is the characters actions which reveal the character in the play.
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Action Character Feed Feeling Instigate Reveal Selected Suspend Unless Vacumn
Once in a while, there’s stuff that makes me say, That’s what theatre’s about. It has to be a human event on the stage, and that doesn’t happen very often.
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Event Happen Human Make Man One Stage Theatre Very While
We had a relationship that lasted 44 years. Herbert and I lived together 10 years before we were married. He always gave me a little heart for whatever anniversary.
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Always Heard Last Little Love Married Person Relationship Together Year
For some strange reason, we believe that anyone who lived before we were born was in some peculiar way a different kind of human being from any we have come in contact with in our own lifetime.
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Before Born Different Human Being Kind Live Peculiar Reason Some Strange
I love playing Chekhov. That’s the hardest; that’s why I love it most.
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Chekhov Hardest Love Ost Play
It must be noted that it is often the colleague or direct disciple of a new thinker who gets stuck in literal interpretations of the work, tending to freeze the new ideas and language into an inflexible, static condition.
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Colleague Disciple Freeze Interpretation Must Note Often Stuck Thinker Trend Work
The need to be loved and protected is at a peak when we feel abandoned and are particularly vulnerable to difficult circumstances.
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Abandoned Circumstance Love Ned Peak Protect Vulnerable
All tedious research is worth one inspired moment.
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Inspire Moment One Worth
One cannot demand of art that it pay you in any other way than in the satisfaction of the work itself.
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Any Demand One Other Satisfaction Way Work
I think, by and large, the level of acting is mediocre. When I go to the theatre, I get so angry. I don’t go.
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Act Angry Go Large Level Mediocre Theatre Think
If you want a bourgeois existence, you shouldn’t be an actor. You’re in the wrong profession.
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Actor Bourgeois Existence Profession Wrong
Working with Brando was fun. It was like a tennis match. We played unbelievably well together.
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Country Fun Like Match Tennis Together Unbelievable Work
I love going to the movies; I love watching good movie actors. They must know something I don’t.
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Actor Good Love Movie Something Watch
To rebel or revolt against the status quo is in the very nature of an artist.
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Against Artist Natural Quo Rebel Revolt Status
Marlon was so sensitive, you thought the poor guy just had a bad education.
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Country Education Guy Person Poor Sensitive

This concept must be changed; we must realize in our bones that almost everything in time and history has changed except the human being.

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