Acting is the most personal of our crafts. The make-up of a human being - his physical, mental and emotional habits - influence his acting to a much greater extent than commonly recognized.
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A great actor is independent of the poet, because the supreme essence of feeling does not reside in prose or in verse, but in the accent with which it is delivered.
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The actor creates with his own flesh and blood all those things which all the arts try in some way to describe.
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An actors' tribute to me is in his work.
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