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 culture.
From Laurence Olivier
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 light relief; of tragedy, to wound them and bring the relief of tears. Disgust and terror are the other points of the compass.
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 think I would add one word.
I take a simple view of life: keep your eyes open and get on with it.
I should be soaring away with my head tilted slightly toward the gods, feeding on the caviar of Shakespeare. An actor must act.
Have a very good reason for everything you do.
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.
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.
When you're a young man, Macbeth is a character part. When you're older, it's a straight part.
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