Actor training should be broadly humanistic, involving the study not just of dramatic literature and theatre history, but of languages, literature, a…

- Richard Hornby

Theatre, in which actors take on changing roles, has among its many functions the examination of identity. For the individual, theatre is a kind of i…

- Richard Hornby

Emotional release by itself, no matter how "real," "honest," etc. the emotion may be, is never enough to create a character...such release has no art…

- Richard Hornby

Our everyday self is a narrow construct...Our total self is far broader, ultimately infinite. Actors who seem to be playing themselves are actually p…

- Richard Hornby