To grasp the full significance of life is the actor's duty; to interpret it his problem; and to express it his dedication.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
To grasp the full significance of life is the actor's duty, to interpret it is his problem, and to express it his dedication.
An actor must interpret life, and in order to do so must be willing to accept all the experiences life has to offer. In fact, he must seek out more of life than life puts at his feet.
As actors, we are so privileged to do what we do and to give to the world and to choose the subject we want to say to the world.
Our obligation is to give meaning to life and in doing so to overcome the passive, indifferent life.
As an actor, I have to be fulfilled in the roles that I play; it has to be a journey for me to learn something or involve myself.
As an actor, you're tied to the writing. You live and die by what's written for you. And you can elevate that to a certain extent, but really, that's your blueprint.
Our ability to handle life's challenges is a measure of our strength of character.
Being an actor is a matter of choice that, above all, takes place at an existential level: either you express the conservative structures of society and are nothing more that a tool in the hands of power, or you address the progressive components of this society in an attempt to settle a revolutionary relation between art and life.
What interests me about life most is people, and the why of the world. That's what theatre looks at: it examines life, and gives it a cohesiveness that life doesn't have.
The task which we have set ourselves is simply to show why and for what purpose we hold that standpoint during most of our lives, and why and for what purpose we are provisionally obliged to abandon it.