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The office of drama is to exercise, possibly to exhaust, human emotions. The purpose of comedy is to tickle those emotions into an expression of... →
I believe that in a great city, or even in a small city or a village, a great theater is the outward and visible sign of an inward and probable... →
I'd like people to remember me for a diligent expert workman. I think a poet is a workman. I think Shakespeare was a workman. And God's a... →
The actor should be able to create the universe in the palm of his hand.
Acting is a masochistic form of exhibitionism. It is not quite the occupation of an adult.
I don't know what is better than the work that is given to the actor-to teach the human heart the knowledge of itself.
We have all, at one time or another, been performers, and many of us still are - politicians, playboys, cardinals and kings.
Living is strife and torment, disappointment and love and sacrifice, golden sunsets and black storms. I said that some time ago, and today I do not... →
Have a very good reason for everything you do.
We ape, we mimic, we mock. We act.
If he was lost for a moment, he would dive straight back into its honey.
I take a simple view of life: keep your eyes open and get on with it.
When you're a young man, Macbeth is a character part. When you're older, it's a straight part.