"Now, when I started my theater, the modus operandi was having the actors stare right into the audience."

-- Richard Foreman

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“I think it's fun playing a part that lots of other people have played, in a way.”
“The first audition I ever went on, I was accompanied by my mother at the instruction of my father. You have to learn how to take rejection if you really want to be an actor, he said. He had to eat his own words. I got the job.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“Fear is a powerful beast, if it is allowed the mastery.”

Source : Mary Balogh (2012). “The Proposal”, p.109, Delacorte Press
“The idea that it is funny to see wild animals coerced into acting like clumsy humans, or thrilling to see powerful beasts reduced to cringing cowards by a whip-cracking trainer is primitive and medieval. It stems from the old idea that we are superior to other species and have the right to hold dominion over them.”

Source : "Rose-Tinted Menagerie" by William Johnson, (p. 10), 1990.
“The world's not a very comfortable place if you have a nightmare to face.”
“I shy away from plot structure that depends on the characters behaving in ways that are going to eventually be explained by their childhood, or by some recent trauma or event. People are incredibly complicated. Who knows why they are the way they are?”
“The issue of religious liberty is absolutely critical. America was founded on three different types of liberty: political liberty, economic liberty, and religious and civil liberty. It's remarkable that, one-by-one, these strands of liberty are coming under fierce attack from the Left. And that's particularly ironic because "liberal" derives from a word which means "liberty," the free man as opposed to the slave. This liberalism which we're saddled with today isn't a real liberalism at all, but a gangster style of politics masquerading as liberalism.”

Source : Source: pittsburghurbanmedia.com
“In comparison, there's no comparison.”

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