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The real actor–like any real artist—has a direct line to the collective heart.
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I do not regret one professional enemy I have made. Any actor who doesn't dare to make an enemy should get out of the business.
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Without discipline and detachment, an actor is an emotional slob, spilling his insides out. This abandonment is having an unfortunate vogue. It is tasteless, formless, absurd. Without containment there is no art. All this vomiting and wheezing and bursting at the seams is no more great acting than the convulsions of raving maniacs.
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Good actors I've worked with all started out making faces in a mirror, and you keep making faces all your life.
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Physiology and psychology cover, between them, the field of vital phenomena; they deal with the facts of life at large, and in particular with the facts of human life.
Wilhelm Wundt
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Born:
April 5, 1908
Died:
October 6, 1989
(aged 81)
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