Talent Is An Amalgam Of

For Some Strange Reason, We Believe That Anyone Who Lived Before We Were Born Was In Some Peculiar Way A Different Kind Of Human Being From Any We Have Come In Contact With In Our Own Lifetime. This Concept Must Be Changed; We Must Realize In Our Bones That Almost Everything In Time And History Has Changed Except The Human Being.

Thoughts And Feelings Are Suspended In A Vacuum Unless They Instigate And Feed The Selected Actions, And It Is The Characters Actions Which Reveal The Character In The Play.

Theoretically, The Actor Ought To Be More Sound In Mind And Body Than Other People, Since He Learns To Understand The Psychological Problems Of Human Beings When Putting His Own Passions, His Loves, Fears, And Rages To Work In The Service Of The Characters He Plays. He Will Learn To Face Himself, To Hide Nothing From Himself- And To Do So Takes An Insatiable Curiosity About The Human Condition

I Think, By And Large, The Level Of Acting Is Mediocre. When I Go To The Theatre, I Get So Angry. I Don't Go.

It Must Be Noted That It Is Often The Colleague Or Direct Disciple Of A New Thinker Who Gets Stuck In Literal Interpretations Of The Work, Tending To Freeze The New Ideas And Language Into An Inflexible, Static Condition.