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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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Harold Clurman
#Beautiful Quotes
#Girl Quotes
#Legs Quotes
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“Pleasure was the color of the time.”
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Harold Clurman
Source : Harold Clurman (1983). “The Fervent Years: The Group Theatre and the Thirties”, p.3, Da Capo Press
#Color Quotes
#Pleasure Quotes
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“Change the molecules, juices in the blood, so they do things differently.”
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Harold Clurman
#Blood Quotes
#Molecules Quotes
#Juice Quotes
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“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!”
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Harold Clurman
#Believe Quotes
#Yield Quotes
#Temptation Quotes
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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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Harold Clurman
#Pain Quotes
#Acting Quotes
#Ass Quotes
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“His art is the health of the artist.”
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Harold Clurman
Source : Harold Clurman (1974). “The divine pastime: theatre essays”
#Art Quotes
#Health Quotes
#Artist Quotes
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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
Source : "On Directing".
#Believe Quotes
#Yield Quotes
#Temptation Quotes
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“Unlike other people, our reviewers are powerful because they believe in nothing.”
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Harold Clurman
Source : Harold Clurman (1983). “The Fervent Years: The Group Theatre and the Thirties”, p.100, Da Capo Press
#Powerful Quotes
#Believe Quotes
#People Quotes
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