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“Happiness was useless to me. It was heartache that filled my purse. What happy man has need of Shakespeare?”
“You know, when I first went into the movies Lionel Barrymore played my grandfather. Later he played my father and finally he played my husband. If he had lived I'm sure I would have played his moth...”
“The master action to move forward, is a form of inaction; being still and quiet.”
“A Film has the potential to kindle such a spark of inspiration in an individual that it can alter the course of human progress.”
“Entertain, but also, give the viewer something to think about.”
“Healthy entertainment does not evoke raw emotions in the mind of a viewer only to make them wreak havoc, rather it guides those emotions in a healthy direction.”
“Healthy entertainment is a beautiful blend of stimuli that can connect with the viewer at a sentimental level, then sow the seeds of a certain idea or feed the mind with inspiration and courage. In...”
“...if the actor gave his performance without knowing that he was in a play, then his tears would be real tears and his life a real life. And whenever I think of this pain and joy that rise up in me...”
“I've been very lucky at what's happened in my career to date, but playing something as far from me as possible is an ambition of mine - anything from a mutated baddy in a comic book action thriller...”
“At once, its clear I cannot gush. We try me playing cocky, but I just dont have the arrogance. Apparently, Im too vulnerable for ferocity. Im not witty. Funny. Sexy. Or mysterious By the end of the...”
“You are the actor. Your body brings in something, call it presence, and it happens by degrees. Arms, chest, haunches and thighs, calves and feet. The body, firing synapses, in between and in the gr...”
“I think I'm an actor because I have very strong imagination and empathy. I never studied acting, but those two qualities are exactly the qualities that make for an activist.”
“In his madness he became a terrifying actor!”
“I'd found my niche: cat-owning, stalker-y secretary. And I played the same part again and again and again.”
“In the language of an actor, to know is synonymous with to feel”
“Physicality is the basis of performance.”
“When most dullards hear the words 'the theater,' they envision a twelve-screen multiplex where disaster porn entertains the culturally witless for 90 minutes at a time. Pfaugh. The word 'theater' h...”
“I knew exactly when the fever had struck. I had been reading Hamlet in an English class at school. Everyone else stumbled, puzzling over the strange words. Then it had been my turn, and the languag...”
“Be innocent, wise and ninety-five.”
“The best author is a dead author, because he's out of your way and you own the play. Take what he has given you and use it for what you need.”
