Harold Clurman Quotes
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Pleasure was the color of the time.
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The stage is life, music, beautiful girls, legs, breasts, not talk or intellectualism or dried-up academics.
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His art is the health of the artist.
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Change the molecules, juices in the blood, so they do things differently.
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Unlike other people, our reviewers are powerful because they believe in nothing.
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Joan of Arc should be played as a "pain in the ass" and how do I know she was a "pain in the ass"? ... because they burn her at the end.
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The actor's physical type is the main consideration. It isn't and shouldn't be. Does the actor "look the part"? It is the simplest question to deal with. The director deludes himself who yields to the temptation to believe that an affirmative answer settles the matter. An actor's looks will impress an audience initially but after his first five minutes on stage it becomes aware of what he or she communicates (or fails to communicate) through acting!
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Harold Clurman
- Born: September 18, 1901
- Died: September 9, 1980
- Occupation: Theatre Director
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