Life beats down and crushes the soul and art reminds you that you have one.
The word theatre comes from the Greeks. It means the seeing place. It is the place people come to see the truth about life and the social situation.
The theatre was created to tell people the truth about life and the social situation.
One way we can enliven the imagination is to push it toward the illogical. We're not scientists. We don't always have to make the logical, reasonable leap.
The actor cannot afford to look only to his own life for all his material nor pull strictly from his own experience to find his acting choices and feelings.
A junkie is someone who uses their body to tell society that something is wrong.