I do not regret one professional enemy I have made. Any actor who doesn't dare to make an enemy should get out of the business.
The theater is so endlessly fascinating because it's so accidental. It's so much like life.
Make them laugh, make them cry, and hack to laughter. What do people go to the theatre for? An emotional exercise. I am a servant of the people. I have never forgotten that.
Theatre takes place all the time - wherever one is - and art simply facilitates persuading one this is the case.
Good theatre draws the energies out of the place where it is and gives it back as joie de vivre.
All the world's a stage, and all the men and women merely players: they have their exits and their entrances; and one man in his time plays many parts, his acts being seven ages.
Consider the public. Never fear it nor despise it. Coax it, charm it, interest it, stimulate it, shock it now and then if you must, make it laugh, make it cry, but above all never, never, never bore the living hell out of it.
We need a type of theatre which not only releases the feelings, insights and impulses possible within the particular historical field of human relations in which the action takes place, but employs and encourages those thoughts and feelings which help transform the field itself.
Acting is merely the art of keeping a large group of people from coughing.
You can throw away the privilege of acting, but that would be such a shame. The tribe has elected you to tell its story. You are the shaman/healer, that's what the storyteller is, and I think it's important for actors to appreciate that. Too often actors think it's all about them, when in reality it's all about the audience being able to recognize themselves in you. The more you pull away from the public, the less power you have on screen.
Theater is, of course, a reflection of life. Maybe we have to improve life before we can hope to improve theater.
Don't be seduced into thinking that that which does not make a profit is without value.
A good film is when the price of the dinner, the theatre admission and the babysitter were worth it.
I love acting. It is so much more real than life.
The theater, which is in no thing, but makes use of everything - gestures, sounds, words, screams, light, darkness - rediscovers itself at precisely the point where the mind requires a language to express its manifestations.... To break through language in order to touch life is to create or recreate the theatre.
Theatre, in which actors take on changing roles, has among its many functions the examination of identity. For the individual, theatre is a kind of identity laboratory in which social roles can be examined vicariously.
Drama is exposure; it is confrontation; it is contradiction and it leads to analysis, construction, recognition and eventually to an awakening of understanding.
I haven't really written my plays and books - I've heard them. The stories are there already, singing in your genes and in your blood.
A play is a painting that moves. Instead of it holding still, and you are looking at it, you hold still and it scrolls by.
The structure of a play is always the story of how the birds came home to roost.
The theatre, for all its artifices, depicts life in a sense more truly than history, because the medium has a kindred movement to that of real life, though an artificial setting and form.
Theatre is not supposed to represent psychology but passions, which is totally different. Its role is to represent the soul's different emotional states, and those of the mind, the world history.
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.
Never meddle with play-actors, for they're a favoured race.
It's a whole different kind of anxiety. But the great thing about doing a theatre job is that once the ball starts rolling you just have to go with it, it's inexorable.
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