Jean Stapleton Quotes

• Prejudice is an assortment of deceptively small personal judgments - deceptive because of their great cost in our daily lives.

  Jean Stapleton

  Prejudice, Cost, Daily Life

  "Overcoming My Archie Bunker Prejudice" by Jean Stapleton, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 3, 2013.

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• Listening is the key to total concentration. You listen as the character would listen, closing the door on everything else. Then you are ready to respond.

  Jean Stapleton

  Character, Keys, Doors

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• The goal of the World Federalists is peace through unity of government. We must support their vision of oneness in diversity, for it is the salvation of mankind.

  Jean Stapleton

  Government, Oneness, Diversity

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• Lots of colors appear when you're working with other people.

  Jean Stapleton

  Color, People, Working With Others

  "Jean Stapleton: On Theatre". Interview with Robert Faires, www.austinchronicle.com. November 10, 2000.

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• On the last day of our five-day work week, we did two performances and we had an audience. It was similar to theatre; we went from beginning to end, and it was very pleasing.

  Jean Stapleton

  Fog, Two, Theatre

  "Jean Stapleton: On Theatre". Interview with Robert Faires, www.austinchronicle.com. November 10, 2000.

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• First, you do a piece of material that begins and ends and has a flow; it's not chopped up as in a film, where in an extreme case you might be doing the last scene of the script the first day that you go to work, and you don't know enough about the character you're playing.

  Jean Stapleton

  Character, Lasts, Flow

  "Jean Stapleton: On Theatre". Interview with Robert Faires, www.austinchronicle.com. November 10, 2000.

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