"Acting is not a genteel profession. Actors used to be buried at a crossroads with a stake through the heart. Those people's performances so troubled the onlookers that they feared their ghosts. An awesome compliment.
"Those players moved the audience not such that they were admitted to a graduate school, or received a complimentary review, but that the audience feared for their soul. Now that seems to me something to aim for."
"It is not childish to live with uncertainty, to devote oneself to a craft rather than a career, to an idea rather than an institution. It's courageous and requires a courage of the order that the institutionally co-opted are ill equipped to perceive."
--David Mamet, True and False
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