Declan Donnellan Quotes

• Acting is a reflex, a mechanism for development and survival. . . . It isn't 'second nature,' it is 'first nature.'

  Declan Donnellan

  Survival, Acting, Development

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• If every auditorium were razed to the ground, theatre would still survive, because the hunger in each of us to act and be acted to, is genetic. This intense hunger even crosses the threshold of sleep. For we direct, perform and witness performances every night - theatre cannot die before the last dream has been dreamt.

  Declan Donnellan

  Sueño, Sueño, Noche

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• Love happens when we pay attention

  Declan Donnellan

  Attention, Pay, Pay Attention

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• But we never tell the truth. We cannot properly 'tell' the truth, because our words are crude tools to express something, 'the truth', which may well exist, but which we cannot define.

  Declan Donnellan

  Truth, Our Words, Tools

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• Our shock that reality is other than expected is weirdly tenacious

  Declan Donnellan

  Reality, Shock, Expected

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• For we direct, perform and witness performances every night – theatre cannot die before the last dream has been dreamt.

  Declan Donnellan

  Dream, Night, Theatre

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