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I’m a bad liar; I don’t know what to say backstage.

Uta Hagen

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
no work of art is ever finished, nothing is ever static, no performance is for keeps.
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Art Ever Finish Keep Performance Static Work
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
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
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
I won’t go to England because they won’t let my dog in.
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Country Dog Go
I love playing Chekhov. That’s the hardest; that’s why I love it most.
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Chekhov Hardest Love Ost Play
Maybe the one I enjoyed playing most was A Month in the Country.
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Country Enjoy Maybe Month Most Play
We must overcome the notion that we must be regular… it robs you of the chance to be extraordinary and leads you to the mediocre.
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Chance Elad Extraordinary Mediocre Must Notion Overcome Regular Rob
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
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
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
Keep pace with the present. Take a trip to the moon. envision the future.
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Envision Future Keep Moon Pace Present Take Trip
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
Awards don’t really mean much.
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Award Mean Much Really
Marlon was so sensitive, you thought the poor guy just had a bad education.
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Country Education Guy Person Poor Sensitive

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