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• Among the most disheartening and dangerous of . . . advisors, you will often find those closest to you, your dearest friends,…
• The essence of acting is the conveyance of truth through the medium of the actor's mind and person. The science of acting…
• Go into the streets, into the slums, into the fashionable quarters. Go into the day courts and the night courts. Become acquainted…
• As soon as I suspect a fine effect is being achieved by accident I lose interest. I am not interested...in unskilled labor.…
• ... most of all the actor will love the boys and girls, the men and women, who sit in the cheapest seats,…
• People whose understanding and taste in literature, painting, and music are beyond question are, for the most part, ignorant of what is…
• ...an actor is exactly as big as his imagination.
• This...is an age of specialization, and in such an age the repertory theater is an anachronism, a ludicrous anachronism.
• ...I have never known a movement in the theater that did not work direct and serious harm. Indeed, I have sometimes felt…
• Idealistic producing is safe. Sensibly projected in the theater, the fine thing always does pay and always will.
• It is in the irony of things that the theatre should be the most dangerous place for the actor. But, then, after…
• Be reflective...and stay away from the theater as much as you can. Stay out of the theatrical world, out of its petty…

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