Lotte Lenya was all emotion. She wasn't anything but emotion. She was not an intellectual.
What I like about [Berthold] Brecht, it's very interesting. When Helene Weigel came over and somebody talked about Lotte Lenya and said "well, she wasn't alienating. " And Weigel said "No, no, no. Why, Lotte Lenya was so true - who cares?" She said: "Berti only developed the theory of alienation in order to stop bad acting. " I heard her say that. Now that's brilliant.