Top 8 Arthur Penn Quotes

#1. I believe, and this is perhaps too nationalistic a view, that the American style of acting puts actors quickly in touch with each other, so that their continuous presence in a company, as in England, is not absolutely necessary.

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#2. A lot of directors in television have come up through the technical ranks. They have all the technical skills in the world. They're not all that familiar with actors.

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#3. One has a sort of spiritual obligation to go back to the source material of the literature, to make contact with one of the seminal plays of the modern theater.

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#4. '400 Blows' was so much like my own childhood, it really stunned me.

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#5. Good actors go to emotional places where nobody else wants to go.

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#6. The Queen, bless her heart, has cultivated procrastination to a degree which is really an art
when one is vexed, as I fear I often am, one should recall that the Bowes Lyons are the laziest family in the world. Against this reflection it becomes remarkable that she accomplishes so much.

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#7. I believe that a large part of the training in the regional theaters is in imitation of the British style of acting. The British orientation is textual; they start from the language and work toward the character.

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#8. Tap into what you don't want to say. Tap into that secret place, despite the agony, despite the personal pain, over and above the fatigue.

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