To mature means to take responsibility for your life, to be on your own. Psychoanalysis fosters the infantile state by considering that the past is responsible for the illness.
Every little moment has a meaning all its own.
Life beats down and crushes our souls and theatre reminds us that we have one. At least the type of theatre that I'm interested in; that is, theatre that moves an audience. You have the opportunity to literally impact the lives of people if they work on material that has integrity. But today, most actors simply want to be famous. Well, being an actor was never supposed to be about fame and money. Being an actor is a religious calling because you've been given the ability, the gift to inspire humanity. Think about that on the way to your soap opera audition.
Act before you think - your instincts are more honest than your thoughts.
Acting is behaving truthfully under imaginary circumstances.
If you want to reach every person in the audience, it's not about being bigger, it's about going deeper.
Don't be an actor. Be a human being who works off what exists under imaginary circumstances.
Our stories about our own lives are a form of fiction, I began to see and become more insistent as we grow older, even as we try to make them come out in some other way.
Now you are meeting another Lauryn, so it's good to be reintroduced.
Despair snuffs the sun from the firmament.
I am also greatly indebted to Bergson, William James, and John Dewey. One of my preoccupations has been to rescue their type of thought from the charge of anti-intellectualism, which rightly or wrongly has been associated with it.