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Theater helps people keep sane.
I give myself to my parts as to a lover.
I've identified all my life with refugees.
The arts stop society going rotten and mad.
Integrity is so perishable in the summer months of success.
Ask the right questions if you're to find the right answers.
The people I admire most are those who struggle for everyone.
I've been working for refugees for years and years and years.
Ask the right questions if you're going to find the right answers.
Just being alive, staying human, I think that's infinitely precious.
In my early days, I auditioned a lot. Mostly, I didn't get anywhere.
I think the theatre is as essential to civilization as safe, pure water.
What a script says that isn't dialogue is as important as the spoken word.
As a mother you have got to have a view for now and a view for the future.
I think everybody, including myself, are in danger of losing our humanity.
A film can open hearts and minds that have been closed, for whatever reasons.
Theater and poetry were what helped people stay alive and want to go on living.
Shakespeare lets us see real people undergoing real processes, with real feelings
Shakespeare lets us see real people undergoing real processes, with real feelings.
A conservative frame of mind is very limiting for an actor, and a human being, too.
The notion of 'building a career' had never been heard or dreamed of when I was young.
Politics is about divisions. Wherever you come in on the subject, there are divisions.
You can't be striving to please; you must be striving to get to the heart of the matter.
I don't think my life has been badly lived - but I don't think of it that way. And nor should I.
I don't want to spend my last few whatever it is, months or years on this earth, giving speeches.
I liked film-making, but the most difficult thing was the editing. I found it tormentingly difficult.
The stage is actor's country. You have to get your passport stamped every so often or they take away your citizenship.
I've opened my mouth on a lot of subjects. And I thought the more prestige you get, I'd have the power to do what I like. It's not true.
I acted with Albie at Stratford-on-Avon in the 1959 season. We in the acting company tended to hang out at the pub known as the Dirty Duck.
You can get numbed. People can get hardened. It's not their fault; they just get hardened. News media get hardened. Proprietors get even harder.
We will always want films ... that basically are centred on young people, because young people is the way we live on, we older people, insofar as we live on.
People talk about preaching to the converted, which is total codswallop rubbish. There is no such thing as being converted forever - absolutely no such thing.
A deeper truth the camera can see can be more surprising than even the director imagined it could be. That's a wonderful thing that grows and happens in films.
A theater is being given over to market forces, which means that a whole generation that should be able to do theater as well as see it is being completely deprived
A theater is being given over to market forces, which means that a whole generation that should be able to do theater as well as see it is being completely deprived.
One of the joys of cinema is that, given the right circumstances, and the genius director, an incredibly wonderfully actor can become the embodiment of his character.
The society Shakespeare knew was heading for tremendous change, and he seems to have recognized that and written about it in a coded way. I understand those codes, I think
The society Shakespeare knew was heading for tremendous change, and he seems to have recognized that and written about it in a coded way. I understand those codes, I think.
We are child-bearers primarily, and we are the weaker sex, and once we've given birth to our children, our life is by necessity bound to them. I wouldn't advocate it any other way.
I didn't plan that there'd be this awful situation in which our European governments, just to start the story off, breaking the Geneva conventions on the protection on the human rights of refugees.
One must never comment as an actor, never show that a character is shallow or vindictive, but let that be conveyed. I mean, none of us thinks of ourselves as being vindictive or shallow - perhaps we should.
There always comes a moment where all the departments in a film need to work together. And if a director, his first assistant director, and cinematographer have a very clear vision, then everybody does work together.
My uncles and my father were all in the Royal Navy. One of my uncles, as a matter of fact, was drowned in the Sea of Singapore, having been fighting for the Royal Navy behind enemy lines, Japanese lines, in the hinterland of Singapore.
I've still got to do something to help, however tiny it is. I always think of the old Hebrew saying, which is translated roughly into, 'He who saves one life saves the world,' because it's pretty ghastly to think of all the people we're not saving.
You can't do what you've been asked to do unless you do the best you can. And roughly speaking, the best you can do is to be very available as a character and actor to the people you're acting with. That's equally important, whether the camera's on the other person or on you.
I thought my story, my experiences as a 2-year-old 'evacuee' from London at the outset of the war, could be important. What happened to me as a child was very light compared to what happened to many children, but... in Britain, there are so many people who just don't know our history.
I was surprised when I was asked to play Miss Daisy and wondered if I could - only in part because she was Jewish but, also because she was a Southern woman who has hardly opened her mouth before she declares she's not prejudiced, and yet everything she does shows how totally prejudiced she is.
An awful lot of filmmaking and playmaking is taken over by marketers and publicists, who set about to tell people what to think. And people feel safer that way. But it's not safe, and the whole wonderful thing that cinema and filmmakers can contribute is to go into the not-safe land of real life.
The stories of the first refugees that I ever came across in literature - that lots of people ever came across - were in 'The Iliad': the escape of Aeneas with his father on his back, the Trojans, from their burning city, and the defeat of their kingdom and what they had to do to try and find safety.
Principles aren't something you hear much from politicians these days. Have you noticed? Right across the board, leaders, whatever the political coloring, avoid talking about laws; they avoid talking about principles. They talk about 'our values.' But values can change, and all our packets of 'values' seem to be getting smaller.