Failure and its accompanying misery is for the artist his most vital source of creative energy.
Look, I'm not odd. I'm just trying to be an actor; not a movie star, an actor.
The closer we come to the negative, to death, the more we blossom.
The only line that's wrong in Shakespeare is 'holding a mirror up to nature.' You hold a magnifying glass up to nature. As an actor you just enlarge it enough so that your audience can identify with the situation. If it were a mirror, we would have no art.
The sadness of our existence should not leave us blunted, on the contrary - how to remain thin-skinned, vulnerable and stay alive?
People wish to be poets more than they wish to write poetry, and that's a mistake. One should wish to celebrate more than one wishes to be celebrated.
Poetry is a matter of life, not just a matter of language.
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