Brecht Quote by Lotte Lenya Download Open image “[Bertholt] Brecht looked very thin, like a herring with very sensitive hands.” — Lotte Lenya ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.3 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Brecht Hands Herring Sensitive
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De tall, dark vun--dere's nothing special about him at all," ter Borcht said dismissively of Fang, who hadn't moved since the doctor had come… — James Patterson Copy Share Image
He, who loves the bristle of bayonets, only sees in their glitter what beforehand he feels in his hand. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
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When I do a film that has nothing to do with Kurt Weill, then I am happy, I am on my own. But in… — Lotte Lenya Copy Share Image
[I have] a heavenly vase full of autumn leaves today. They look so beautiful. How much closer to God can one get? And a… — Lotte Lenya Copy Share Image
[After World War II:] By now we are used to the rubble, which they clear up religiously and indefatigably. What a determination to get… — Lotte Lenya Copy Share Image
While I don't script and I don't use other performers, I think my taste for underlying precision gives me something in common with Allan… — David Antin Copy Share Image
I was called up in the war and sent to a hospital. I dressed wounds, applied iodine, gave enemas, did blood transfusions. If the… — Bertolt Brecht Copy Share Image
“Subtle! Subtlety is bourgeois. Brecht us that when he popped drama’s cherry. He fucked drama until it stopped being subtle, like a lady, and… — David Burr Gerrard Copy Share Image
The dilemma of Brechtian performance is that, for all of Brecht's emphasis on rationality and the undermining of theatrical illusion, the actor must convincingly… — Philip Auslander Copy Share Image
I've never done a [Berthold] Brecht. In the 1960s when the Berliner Ensemble came over [to England] with Helene Weigel [Brecht's second wife], I… — John Hurt Copy Share Image
Every work of art (unless it is a psuedo-intellectualist work, a work already comprised in some ideology that it merely illustrates, as with Brecht)… — Eugene Ionesco Copy Share Image
In order to improve democracy, then, it's necessary to change the people, as Brecht ironically proposed. — Alain Badiou Copy Share Image
It would be inappropiate, undignified, at 38, to conduct friendships or love affairs with the ardour or intensity of a 22 year old. Falling… — David Nicholls Copy Share Image
I was interested in the ways that artists responded to totalitarianism - the Czech Jazz Section, Romanian absurdist theatre, Brecht's alienation effect. The anything-goes,… — Nicholas Royle Copy Share Image
I'm from East Berlin. I grew up in the Bertold Brecht, Kurt Weil tradition, also in the old hippie tradition. — Nina Hagen Copy Share Image
I hesitate to say because it sounds silly, but the first play I did was 'The Caucasian Chalk Circle' by Brecht. — Justin Kirk Copy Share Image
What I like about [Berthold] Brecht, it's very interesting. When Helene Weigel came over and somebody talked about Lotte Lenya and said "well, she… — John Hurt Copy Share Image