Judith Malina Quotes
To stand up on the stage is to say to many people: Look at me. How can you do that without speaking the only truth you know? There is no such thing as an uncommitted actor.
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When I'm on stage, I'm quite over the top - I'm quite flamboyant and camp.
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I could not separate myself off stage from myself on stage, as so many actors can.
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I fell in love with the whole process of making a movie. I loved the sets. I loved watching the actors and the crew.
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I never wanted to look pretty on stage and sing about something we've all heard about before.
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Every retailer, when they price their goods, looks at their total cost overall. When they have costs go up, they'll price their products accordingly.
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I've worked with a band, and it's nice to have someone to travel around with, but I didn't like it as well on stage.
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My parents have basically just taught me the rules of the stage and everything since I was eight.
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At such a loving invitation, Pinocchio, with one leap from the back of the orchestra, found himself in the front rows. With another leap, he was on the orchestra leader's head. With a third, he landed on the stage.
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When I perform on stage, I often pretend to be someone other than myself to bring a certain emotion or intent to a song.
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Paul has more, I think, of a feel for the stage. Whereas I have it more for the notes themselves. I love record making and mixing, arranging, producing. That I love. I love to make beautiful things, but I don't like to perform.
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My music is simple stuff. Anybody can sit down, look at a set of symbols and produce sounds the music represents.
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I think the way I am on stage is probably who I really am. Everything else is a persona. It's an unedited version of who you are. For me there's something pure about that.
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I always wanted to know what it felt like to fall on stage... now I know. It's not how you fall, but how you get up
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As a writer, all you want to do is write for great actors. That's all.
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She looks at me. She does. She.
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The moment always dictates in my work. What I feel, I do. This is the most important thing for me. Everybody can look, but they don't necessarily see. I never calculate or consider; I see a situation and I know that it's right, even if I have to go back to get the proper lighting.
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There are boys you look at and want to touch with your mouth, and there are boys you look at and want to wear one of those surgical masks everyone in China had during bird flu. There are a lot more bird-flu boys at large.
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The last thing you want is an injured actor. That, or having to use a stuntman too much.
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Some directors hardly talk to the actors at all.
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There are some actors who are rehearsal actors, and some who are not. I am not. Having said that, I don't know what I am talking about.
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Whatever I'm doing, I'm in that moment and I'm doing it. The rest of the world's lost. If I'm cooking some food or making soup, I want it to be lovely. If not, what's the point of doing it?
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I just like that balance of the real and the fantastical because as a reader and consumer of stories and fantasy, I always want to feel like I can find that world.
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To stand up on the stage is to say to many people: Look at me. How can you do that without speaking the only truth you know? There is no such thing as an uncommitted actor.
