The actor should be able to create the universe in the palm of his hand.
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I believe that in a great city, or even in a small city or a village, a great theater is the outward and visible sign of an inward and probable culture.Laurence Olivier
We ape, we mimic, we mock. We act.
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Acting is a masochistic form of exhibitionism. It is not quite the occupation of an adult.
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I'd like people to remember me for a diligent expert workman. I think a poet is a workman. I think Shakespeare was a workman. And God's a workman. I don't think there's anything better than a workman.
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I often think that could we creep behind the actor's eyes, we would find an attic of forgotten toys and a copy of the Domesday Book.
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