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There are three great teachers of acting - Life, Shakespeare, and Yourself.

— John Strasberg

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The creative process, like anything in life has poetry to it .

Basic technique is knowing yourself and knowing how to use yourself.

Stanislavsky is the person who really originated the movement that later inspirated the American Theatre and it was the institutionalization of the Actors studio which made it permanent.

To intentionally dream about the world in which the character lives is work which the actor must always do alone; it is then that he establishes the link between himself and the play. This is what I now recognize takes place in the actor’s personal dream space.

I was instructed to do everything I could to help her. My soul was now indentured to serve their relationship with Marilyn. At twenty-one, I felt that my career had already been erased.

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