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I would love to have been a documentary filmmaker I just didn't have the resources to do that.
Anna Deavere Smith
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Anna Deavere Smith
Age: 74
Born: 1950
Born: September 18
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Do you want to be an artist so that the whole world will look at you, or do you want to be an artist because you would like to use your ability to attract attention, to have the world see itself through you differently?
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I have a lot of optimism about new doctors because I think it's really clear that it's a lot of hard work and no guarantee of a lot of money.
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I am interested in personal stories because that's when people become expressive, spontaneous and heartfelt.
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My work is about giving voice to the unheard, and reiterating the voice of the heard in such a way that you question, or re-examine, what is the truth.
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Each person has a literature inside them. But when people lose language, when they have to experiment with putting their thoughts together on the spot-that's what I love most. That's where character lives.
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I see myself as not a typical theater person, but a person who uses the theater as a place to meet people and explore ideas.
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Use your time to bathe yourself in the gift. Move your hand across the canvas. Go to museums. Make this into an obsession.
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My main concern is theater, and theater does not reflect or mirror society. It has been stingy and selfish, and it has to do better.
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I think it's really important to give yourself a very big question that you're working on that you can come home to.
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A lot of acting techniques are very self-oriented.
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Self-esteem does not come from surrounding yourself with people and things that seem to increase your value. Real self-esteem is an integration of an inner-value with things in the world around you.
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Commit to finding the true nature of art. Go for that thing no one can teach you.
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I don't talk a lot when I interview. My job is to get out of the way.
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If you think about what acting is supposed to be, my job is to disappear.
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You hang around actors, or dancers, the minute you sneeze, everybody has a remedy, and we're all on a million different kinds of diets, and different kinds of things that we do for exercise.
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I have never been in a violent movie or television show.
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If you say a word often enough it becomes you.
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People in power have to be careful about what comes out of their mouth. They have to find exactly the right word that can't be attacked.
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That artists are called to be more responsible and 'true' is a tip of hat to their power.
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Art should take what is complex and render it simply. It takes a lot of skill, human understanding, stamina, courage, energy, and heart to do that.
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