Harold Clurman Quotes

• The stage is life, music, beautiful girls, legs, breasts, not talk or intellectualism or dried-up academics.

  Harold Clurman

  Beautiful, Girl, Legs

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• Pleasure was the color of the time.

  Harold Clurman

  Color, Pleasure

  Harold Clurman (1983). “The Fervent Years: The Group Theatre and the Thirties”, p.3, Da Capo Press

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• The actor's physical type is the main consideration. It isn't and shouldn't be. Does the actor "look the part"? It is the simplest question to deal with. The director deludes himself who yields to the temptation to believe that an affirmative answer settles the matter. An actor's looks will impress an audience initially but after his first five minutes on stage it becomes aware of what he or she communicates (or fails to communicate) through acting!

  Harold Clurman

  Believe, Yield, Temptation

  "On Directing".

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• His art is the health of the artist.

  Harold Clurman

  Art, Health, Artist

  Harold Clurman (1974). “The divine pastime: theatre essays”

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• Unlike other people, our reviewers are powerful because they believe in nothing.

  Harold Clurman

  Powerful, Believe, People

  Harold Clurman (1983). “The Fervent Years: The Group Theatre and the Thirties”, p.100, Da Capo Press

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• Joan of Arc should be played as a "pain in the ass" and how do I know she was a "pain in the ass"? ... because they burn her at the end.

  Harold Clurman

  Pain, Acting, Ass

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• Change the molecules, juices in the blood, so they do things differently.

  Harold Clurman

  Blood, Molecules, Juice

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