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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.

Uta Hagen

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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
I love playing Chekhov. That’s the hardest; that’s why I love it most.
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Chekhov Hardest Love Ost Play
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
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
All tedious research is worth one inspired moment.
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Inspire Moment One Worth

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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