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Harold Clurman quotes

Ocupation: Theatre Director

Life: September 18, 1901 - September 9, 1980

Birthday: September 18

Death: September 9

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The stage is life, music, beautiful girls, legs, breasts, not talk or intellectualism or dried-up academics.

Topics: Beautiful, Girl, Legs, Intellectualism

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Pleasure was the color of the time.

source: - Harold Clurman (1983). “The Fervent Years: The Group Theatre and the Thirties”, p.3, Da Capo Press

Topics: Color, Pleasure

Change the molecules, juices in the blood, so they do things differently.

Topics: Blood, Molecules, Juice

The actor's physical type isn't and shouldn't be the main consideration. 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!

Topics: Believe, Yield, Temptation

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.

Topics: Pain, Acting, Ass

His art is the health of the artist.

source: - Harold Clurman (1974). “The divine pastime: theatre essays”

Topics: Art, Health, Artist

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!

source: - "On Directing".

Topics: Believe, Yield, Temptation

Unlike other people, our reviewers are powerful because they believe in nothing.

source: - Harold Clurman (1983). “The Fervent Years: The Group Theatre and the Thirties”, p.100, Da Capo Press

Topics: Powerful, Believe, People, Reviewers

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