Harold Clurman quotes
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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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“Pleasure was the color of the time.”
-- Harold ClurmanSource : Harold Clurman (1983). “The Fervent Years: The Group Theatre and the Thirties”, p.3, Da Capo Press
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“Change the molecules, juices in the blood, so they do things differently.”
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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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“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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“His art is the health of the artist.”
-- Harold ClurmanSource : Harold Clurman (1974). “The divine pastime: theatre essays”
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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!”
-- Harold ClurmanSource : "On Directing".
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“Unlike other people, our reviewers are powerful because they believe in nothing.”
-- Harold ClurmanSource : Harold Clurman (1983). “The Fervent Years: The Group Theatre and the Thirties”, p.100, Da Capo Press
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