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I love going to the movies; I love watching good movie actors. They must know something I don’t.

Uta Hagen

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
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
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
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 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
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
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 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
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
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
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
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
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
All tedious research is worth one inspired moment.
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Inspire Moment One Worth

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