The Soul of the American Actor

“You are led through your lifetime by the inner learning creature, the playful spiritual being that is your real self.”
– Richard Bach

“Never underestimate the power of dreams and the influence of the human spirit. We are all the same in this notion: The potential for greatness lives within each of us.”
– Wilma Rudolph

“Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do. Don’t bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.”
– William Faulkner

“Every day is a new day. It is better to be lucky. But I would rather be exact. Then when luck comes you are ready.”
– Ernest Hemingway

“My favorite piece of music is the one we hear all the time if we are quiet.”
– John Cage

 

 

 

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“You are led through your lifetime by the inner learning creature, the playful spiritual being that is your real self.”
– Richard Bach

“Never underestimate the power of dreams and the influence of the human spirit. We are all the same in this notion: The potential for greatness lives within each of us.”
– Wilma Rudolph

“Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do. Don’t bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.”
– William Faulkner

“Every day is a new day. It is better to be lucky. But I would rather be exact. Then when luck comes you are ready.”
– Ernest Hemingway

“My favorite piece of music is the one we hear all the time if we are quiet.”
– John Cage

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Edward Albee
Jane Alexander
Alec Baldwin
Patrik Baldauff
Catherine Jean Barbour
Eunice Batistella
Gretchen Bender
Carol Benner
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Andre Bishop
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Philip Bosco
Jay Broad
Alan Brody
Lisa Burrascaro
Vinie Burrows
G. M. Calhoun
Frances Carlin
Joe Caruso
Bertrand J. Charest
Robert R. Carter
Tina Chen
David Connelly
Marisa Costa
Paul De Sousa
Donna Dickson
James Dickson
Robert DiFalco
Allan Dodds Frank
Alfred Dowbysz
Laura Dragomir
Olympia Dukakis
Sonia Dunbar
David Ellenstein
Christine Emmert
Ray Faiola
Ian Farthing
Frank Fatone
Barry Feinstein
Tom Ferriter
Allan Dodds Frank
Mario Fratti
Rita Fredricks
Arthur French
Frank Gagliano
Kathryn Gately & Richard Poole
Kelly Gmazel
Guthrie Theater
Sheldon Harnick
Richard Herd
Robert Hethmon
Gary Hilborn
Louise Kerz Hirschfeld
Patrick Hogan
Jennifer and James Huth
Mark Jenkins
Natassia Kaonkina
Clarinda Karpov
Jeffrey James Keyes
Lisa Keys
Jack Kissel

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Timothy Large
Myla Lichtman-Fields
Lincoln Center Library
Laurence Luckinbill
Charles B. MacLeod II
Ric Maddox
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Michael McGarry
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Ana Medina
Ron Millkie
Robert Morse
Nina Murano
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Annah Patterson
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Franco Pistritto
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Lynn Robinson
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Dorothy Senerchia
Larry Silverberg
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Fern Sloane
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Joan Valentina
Jean-Claude van Itallie
Villanova Theatre Dept.
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Jared Waltzer
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Fritz Weaver
Elizabeth Hatfield Werther
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Loyd Williamson
Joanne Woodward
Joanne Zipay


"It is a law of life that man cannot live for himself alone. The world's problems are also our personal problems. Health is achieved through maintaining our personal truth in a balanced relation of love to the rest of the world. No expression is more emblematic of this relation than the creative act which we call art, and none more than the theatre. The theatre, to be fully understood and appreciated, must be seen as a manifestation of this process of interchange between society and the individual. It must be judged as a continuous development of groups of individuals within society, becoming richer, acquiring greater force and value as it grows with the society. Only in this way can the theatre nourish us."  - Harold Clurman

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