Joseph Chaikin quotes

Joseph Chaikin quotes

last updated: November 28, 2023

“The [Great] Actor is able to approach in himself a cosmic dread as large as life. He is able to go from his dread to a joy so sweet that it is without limit. Only then will the actor have direct access to the life that moves in him, which is as free as his breathing. And like his breathing, he doesn't cause it to happen. He doesn't contain it, and it doesn't contain him.”
-- Joseph Chaikin

Source : Joseph Chaikin (1993). “The Presence of the Actor”, p.10, Theatre Communications Group

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