He submits to be seen through a microscope, who suffers himself to be caught in a fit of passion.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear.
What the human being sees, what is poured into his environment, becomes a force in him. In accordance with it, he forms himself.
You do not separate the human being from the actions he does or the actions which surround him, but you see what it is like to break these actions up in different ways, to allow passion - and it is passion - to appear for each person in his own way.
He must be independent and brave, and sure of himself and of the importance of his work, because if he isn't he will never survive the scorching blasts of derision that will probably greet his first efforts.
The actor creates with his own flesh and blood all those things which all the arts try in some way to describe.
The creative individual has the capacity to free himself from the web of social pressures in which the rest of us are caught. He is capable of questioning the assumptions that the rest of us accept.
Man is pre-eminently endowed with the power of voluntarily and consciously determining his own point of view.
Man is only great when he acts from passion.
The student who deceives himself into thinking that he is giving his life like an ascetic in the spirit of sacrifice for art, is the victim of a deplorable species of egotism.
He steps on stage and draws the sword of rhetoric, and when he is through, someone is lying wounded and thousands of others are either angry or consoled.