Edward Hall Quotes

• I was a terrible actor. The analytical part of my mind never quite let go.

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• I wanted to make the violence beautiful in order to heighten our revulsion.

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• Each organism, no matter how simple or complex, has around it a sacred bubble of space, a bit of mobile territoriality which only a few other organisms are allowed to penetrate and then only for short periods of time.

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• I hate getting bored.

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• It’s amazing. I can’t believe how brilliant the whole thing is – my daughter, Georgia, is just wonderful.

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• I’d love to do some new plays.

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• People come to the theatre to be excited and uplifted – I want to inspire my audience.

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• Normally, an actress has to work to bring out her male side. In our case, the dynamic is reversed. The actor playing her modelled himself on Sharon Stone.

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• Oh, come off it, I’ve only directed three plays for the RSC.

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• Shakespeare reveals human nature brilliantly: he shines a light on our instinctive desire to dominate each other.

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• While trying to protect the republic, the conspirators in Julius Caesar enable Mark Antony to triumph. In Rose Rage, the more Henry VI tries to fix things, the more they go wrong.

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• Theatre is about people, not buildings. Incalculable damage has been done to the expert talent a company needs – from wardrobe to lighting technicians.

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• I may be able to spot arrowheads on the desert but a refrigerator is a jungle in which I am easily lost.

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• Man is used to the fact that there are languages which he does not at first understand and which must be learned, but because art is primarily visual he expects that he should get the message immediately and is apt to be affronted if he doesn’t.

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• We have cut the text, but what remains are Shakespeare’s words.

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• We felt that although they were patchy, there was a tremendous political energy in the Henry plays.

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• For him to have understood me would have meant reorganizing his thinking… giving up his intellectual ballast, and few people are willing to risk such a radical move.

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• How man evolved with such an incredible reservoir of talent and such fantastic diversity isn’t completely understood… he knows so little and has nothing to measure himself against.

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• Culture is not made up but something that evolves which is human.

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• Behind every piece of paper lies a human situation.

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Edward Hall (27)

Birth:	16th June, 1914
Death:	20th July, 2008
Nationality:	American, Barbudans
Profession:	Biochemist, Scientist, Squash Player

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