- Ape
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- Nov 07, 2020
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- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
A man's prime interest in life must be his work.
- Adult
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- Nov 07, 2020
Acting is a masochistic form of exhibitionism. It is not quite the occupation of an adult.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
Have a very good reason for everything you do.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
Living is strife and torment, disappointment and love and sacrifice, golden sunsets and black storms. I said that some time ago, and today I do not think I would add one word.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
When you're a young man, Macbeth is a character part. When you're older, it's a straight part.
- Heart
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't know what is better than the work that is given to the actor - to teach the human heart the knowledge of itself.
- Purpose
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- Nov 07, 2020
The office of drama is to exercise, possibly to exhaust, human emotions. The purpose of comedy is to tickle those emotions into an expression of light relief; of tragedy, to wound them and bring the relief of tears. Disgust and terror are the other points of the compass.
- Culture
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Better
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- Nov 07, 2020
Surely we have always acted; it is an instinct inherent in all of us. Some of us are better at it than others, but we all do it.
- Politicians
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- Nov 07, 2020
We have all, at one time or another, been performers, and many of us still are - politicians, playboys, cardinals and kings.
- Copy
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Lead
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- Nov 07, 2020
Lead the audience by the nose to the thought.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
My stage successes have provided me with the greatest moments outside myself, my film successes the best moments, professionally, within myself.
- God
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Feeding
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- Nov 07, 2020
I should be soaring away with my head tilted slightly toward the gods, feeding on the caviar of Shakespeare. An actor must act.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
Nobody is going to pretend that I am younger than I am. Apart from anything else, it is in the papers all the damn time - every time I have a birthday.
- Books
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- Nov 07, 2020
Nine books have been written about me, and there's not a word of truth in any of them.
- Mother
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- Nov 07, 2020
I can't think I've ever loved anybody quite as much... My mother was my life, really; she was my entire world.
- Laugh
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- Nov 07, 2020