Jean Stapleton
Jean Stapleton
Jean Stapletonwas an American character actress of stage, television and film...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionTV Actress
Date of Birth19 January 1923
CityNew York City, NY
CountryUnited States of America
character doors keys
Listening is the key to total concentration. You listen as the character would listen, closing the door on everything else. Then you are ready to respond.
box office reason taking thanks tour
The reason I'm in this play and taking a tour and the box office is doing very well is that I'm well-known, and that's thanks to television.
appear colors fulfilling lots natural
But I think it's more fulfilling to be working with people. Lots of colors appear when you're working with other people. It's a more natural form.
But I think it's more fulfilling to be working with people.
beginning craft experience flow
In the theatre, it's a craft and you're going from beginning to end and you experience the whole flow of the play.
fog two theatre
On the last day of our five-day work week, we did two performances and we had an audience. It was similar to theatre; we went from beginning to end, and it was very pleasing.
color people working-with-others
Lots of colors appear when you're working with other people.
oneness government diversity
The goal of the World Federalists is peace through unity of government. We must support their vision of oneness in diversity, for it is the salvation of mankind.
character pieces might
First, you do a piece of material that begins and ends and has a flow; it's not chopped up as in a film, where in an extreme case you might be doing the last scene of the script the first day that you go to work, and you don't know enough about the character you're playing.
prejudice cost daily-life
Prejudice is an assortment of deceptively small personal judgments - deceptive because of their great cost in our daily lives.