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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

We were not allowed to say, Screw, but we could say, Hump the hostess, because hump is in Shakespeare.
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Allow Author Hostess Hump Say Screw
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
The actor must know that since he, himself, is the instrument, he must play on it to serve the character with the same effortless dexterity with which the violinist makes music on his. Just because he doesn’t look like a violin is no reason to assume his techniques should be thought of as less difficult.
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Actor Character Dexterity Effortless Instrument Same Since
Since the time of the ancient Greeks a democracy has depended on its philosophers and creative artists. It can only flourish by continuous probing, prodding, and questioning of the social conditions under which man exists and tries to better himself.
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Ability Country Democracy Dependent Dissent Dogma Philosopher Prescribe Since Time
Usually, someone who’s in a show gets me a ticket. I feel cornered. I can’t walk out if I don’t like it.
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Cornerd Get Out Show Someone Usually Walk
Marlon was so sensitive, you thought the poor guy just had a bad education.
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Country Education Guy Person Poor Sensitive
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
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
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
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
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
I won’t go to England because they won’t let my dog in.
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Country Dog Go
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
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
Maybe the one I enjoyed playing most was A Month in the Country.
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Country Enjoy Maybe Month Most Play
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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Almost Bone Change Concept Everything History Human Realize

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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