English - Actor | August 3, 1937 -
A great opera house isn't run by a director, but by a great administrator.
Steven Berkoff
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Writing is an antidote for loneliness.
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We often find far more power in a symbol than in something that is an an actuality.
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I'm very resistant to most forms of theater.
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In London, nobody comments on what you wear - they think that's not important to you or your state of well-being.
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The great actors we had came from the actor-manager theaters. Not only did they create a team, they were the generals working with the soldiers.
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The mainstream is generally garbage. Look at the heavily subsidized theaters.
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Art is a way of penetrating and going deep into our unconscious and creating amazing worlds - as the Greeks did, if you like, as did Ovid with his stories and his fantasies.
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I like a lot of international people. Julie Taymore, the American director - she's one of the most exciting directors I've seen.
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That is the nature of the British psyche. It's very blunt, plain, very linear. It's pragmatic: it records life as it is.
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A lot of praise is given to very mediocre work. Critics have lost their taste, hearing, and eyesight.
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Transgender casting is a kind of literalism. It is the same with racial casting. This means that you can now only play Othello if you are black. There is something quite tainted about it. It is a form of racism in itself.
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