Brecht Quotes

• Me formé en la escuela de arte dramático, donde estudié a Shakespeare, Brecht, Chekov y todos esos dramaturgos históricos, y creo que respondí al material.

  Orlando Bloom

  Drama, School, Thinking

  Interview with Jeff Otto, www.ign.com. May 3, 2005.

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• While I don't script and I don't use other performers, I think my taste for underlying precision gives me something in common with Allan and George Brecht.

  David Antin

  Thinking, Giving, Use

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• What I like about [Berthold] Brecht, it's very interesting. When Helene Weigel came over and somebody talked about Lotte Lenya and said "well, she wasn't alienating." And Weigel said "No, no, no. Why, Lotte Lenya was so true - who cares?" She said: "Berti only developed the theory of alienation in order to stop bad acting." I heard her say that. Now that's brilliant.

  John Hurt

  Order, Interesting, Acting

  Fuente: www.eyeforfilm.co.uk

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• It would be inappropiate, undignified, at 38, to conduct friendships or love affairs with the ardour or intensity of a 22 year old. Falling in love like that? Writing poetry? Crying at pop songs? Dragging people into photobooths? Taking a whole day to make a compilation tape? Asking people if they wanted to share your bed, just for company? If you quoted Bob Dylan or TS Eliot or, god forbid, Brecht at someone these days they would smile politely and step quietly backwards, and who would blame them? Ridiculous, at 38, to expect a song or book or film to change your life.

  David Nicholls

  Song, Falling In Love, Book

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• I never know who's influencing me at any time. I mean, I can take a play by Brecht and adapt it, I'm consciously adapting that play, or, as I've done with the Greek classics, Euripides and Oedipus, and I'm consciously adapting that play. Whether it influences me or not, I think it's the critics, the analysts who have to decide that. Me, I don't feel that I'm under the influence of any such sources.

  Wole Soyinka

  Media, Pensar, Jugar

  Fuente: www.nobelprize.org

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• The dilemma of Brechtian performance is that, for all of Brecht's emphasis on rationality and the undermining of theatrical illusion, the actor must convincingly portray something that she is not.

  Philip Auslander

  Actors, Illusion, Emphasis

  Philip Auslander (2002). “From Acting to Performance: Essays in Modernism and Postmodernism”, p.33, Routledge

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• In order to improve democracy, then, it's necessary to change the people, as Brecht ironically proposed.

  Alain Badiou

  Order, People, Democracy

  "Alain Badiou: una vida escrita". Entrevista con Stuart Jeffries, www.theguardian.com. 18 de mayo de 2012.

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• Me llamaron a filas en la guerra y me enviaron a un hospital. Vendaba heridas, aplicaba yodo, hacía enemas, transfusiones de sangre. Si el médico ordenaba: "¡Brecht, amputa una pierna!", yo respondía: "¡Por supuesto, Excelencia!", y cortaba la pierna. Si me decían: "¡Realice una trepanación!". abría el cráneo del hombre y jugaba con sus sesos. Vi cómo curaban a los heridos para llevarlos al frente lo antes posible.

  Bertolt Brecht

  Guerra, Corte, Hombres

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• [Bertholt] Brecht parecía muy delgado, como un arenque con manos muy sensibles.

  Lotte Lenya

  Hands, Sensitive, Herring

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• I've never done a [Berthold] Brecht. In the 1960s when the Berliner Ensemble came over [to England] with Helene Weigel [Brecht's second wife], I saw all the Berlin actors. It was an amazing time, very exciting early 1960s.

  John Hurt

  Wife, Ensemble, Actors

  Fuente: www.eyeforfilm.co.uk

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• I was interested in the ways that artists responded to totalitarianism - the Czech Jazz Section, Romanian absurdist theatre, Brecht's alienation effect. The anything-goes, anarchic qualities of jazz and Surrealism seemed to offer a way to cross some of the forbidden frontiers of Eastern Europe.

  Nicholas Royle

  Artist, Europe, Theatre

  Fuente: www.3ammagazine.com

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• Soy cantante de ópera. Puedo cantar Brecht, Weil.

  Nina Hagen

  Opera, Singers, I Can

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• Soy de Berlín Este. Crecí en la tradición de Bertold Brecht, Kurt Weil, también en la vieja tradición hippie.

  Nina Hagen

  Hippie, East Berlin, Tradition

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• I have a great interest in Victorian musical & cabaret performances and Weimar artists so the references are there, to Cabaret and also All That Jazz and other films where, where there's a kind of (influential German playwright Bertolt) Brecht-ian approach, almost to the character standing outside of himself or, in this case, he's "self-séance-ing."

  Andy Serkis

  Character, Artist, Self

  Fuente: collider.com

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• Dudo en decirlo porque parece una tontería, pero la primera obra que hice fue El círculo de tiza caucásico, de Brecht.

  Justin Kirk

  Silly, Play, Circles

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• Todo lo que Brecht escribió -obras de teatro, diálogos y poesía- fue su intento de aclarar las contradicciones internas no sólo del capitalismo y el fascismo de su época, sino también del comunismo que siempre defraudaba sus más profundas esperanzas. En un libro que hace de la lucha de Brecht por revelar estas contradicciones ocultas su tema central, Glahn lanza, implícitamente, una llamada a las armas a los artistas de hoy, que se enfrentan a un mundo que parece desafiar los intentos de tratar la crisis global con un arte que rara vez es más que apuntes sobre la angustia "local".

  Richard Foreman

  Arte, Lucha, Libro

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• Every work of art (unless it is a psuedo-intellectualist work, a work already comprised in some ideology that it merely illustrates, as with Brecht) is outside ideology, is not reducible to ideology. Ideology circumscribes without penetrating it. The absence of ideology in a work does not mean an absence of ideas; on the contrary it fertilizes them.

  Eugene Ionesco

  Arte, Significado, Ideas

  "Una respuesta a Kenneth Tynan: The Playwright's Role". The Observer, 29 de junio de 1958.

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• I got my interest in Lotte Lenya and the Brecht-Weill canon from my parents. And I love classical music - I got that from my parents. I love Cole Porter - that I got from my dad.

  Marianne Faithfull

  Dad, Parent, Classical Music

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• A lot of people don't know that my background is completely classical. For a while there, I was all about Molière and the Greeks and Brecht and Tennessee Williams.

  Katy Mixon

  People, Greek, Tennessee

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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