Brecht Quotes

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I had the training at drama school where I studied Shakespeare and Brecht and Chekov and all these period historical playwrights and I think that I responded to the material.

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.

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

[Bertholt] Brecht looked very thin, like a herring with very sensitive hands.

I'm from East Berlin. I grew up in the Bertold Brecht, Kurt Weil tradition, also in the old hippie tradition.

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.

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.

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.

I'm Opera Singer. I can sing Brecht, Weil.

I hesitate to say because it sounds silly, but the first play I did was The Caucasian Chalk Circle by Brecht.

EpitaphDen Tigern ertrann ichDie Wanzen nährte ichAufgefressen wurde ichVon den Mittelmäßigkeiten.

What are you working on?” Mr. K. was asked. Mr. K. replied: “I’m having a hard time