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• Life beats down and crushes our souls and theatre reminds us that we have one. At least the type of theatre that…
• That which hinders your task is your task.
• The American actor is very lucky... Because so little is asked of him.
• The foundation of acting is the reality of doing.
• There's no such thing as nothing.
• Silence has a myriad of meanings. In the theater, silence is an absence of words, but never an absence of meaning.
• Don't be an actor. Be a human being who works off what exists under imaginary circumstances.
• The text is your greatest enemy.
• Being an actor is a religious calling because you've been given the ability, the gift to inspire humanity. Think about that on…
• Acting is the ability to live truthfully under the given imaginary circumstances
• If you want to reach every person in the audience, it's not about being bigger, it's about going deeper.
• Listen with your gut, not your head.

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