"Whether you are a writer or an actor or a stage manager, you are trying to express the complications of life through a shared enterprise. That's what theatre was, always. And live performance shares that with an audience in a specific compact: the play is unfinished unless it has an audience, and they are as important as everyone else."

-- Lee Hall

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“What has marked Chinese society is its level of cruelty, not just revolutions and wars. We ought to reject it totally, otherwise in another upheaval there will be further cruelty.”
“And really, the basis, I think, of achieving some success in what I want to do today comes from my mother's push to get me to read and to make something of myself from the standpoint of an education.”
“I think that various styles and methods and approaches are an invention of people who don't understand the process of acting and who try very hard to label things.”
“Only the educated are free.”
“I really don't know what's good or bad art because all the art I like people tell me is tasteless.”
“Everybody needs to understand that I learned Arabic from the United States Army as a second language. I never spoke it at home.”
“All of science is built on territory once occupied by gods. Is there some boundary at which science is supposed to stop?”
“Everybody has two swings: the one he uses during the last three holes of a tournament and the one he uses the rest of the time.”

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