"All that day she had had the feeling that she was playing in the theatre with actors better than herself and that her poor playing spoiled the whole thing."
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"If a playwright tried to see eye to eye with everybody, he would get the worst case of strabismus since Hannibal lost an eye trying to count his nineteen elephants during a snowstorm while crossing the Alps."
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"I like a good story well told. That is the reason I am sometimes forced to tell them myself."
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"Is it not a noble farce, wherein kings, republics, and emperors have for so many ages played their parts, and to which the whole vast universe serves for a theatre?"
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"I don't remember what my favourite comedy film is - truthfully! I saw Borat and I thought I was not going to be able to get out of the theatre because I was in so much pain from the laughter."
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"My heroes were all in the theatre."
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"It's a whole different kind of anxiety. But the great thing about doing a theatre job is that once the ball starts rolling you just have to go with it, it's inexorable."
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"I don't see why people want new plays all the time. What would happen to concerts if people wanted new music all the time?"
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"Drama assumes an order. If only so that it might have - by disrupting that order - a way of surprising."
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"The theatre is the involuntary reflex of the ideas of the crowd."
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"In 1968 the Arts Council managed to get a grant from the treasury to buy up a lot of derelict touring theatres and put them back in the hands of the local authorities."
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"Inside I never said I wanted to do theatre or be an actor."
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"Live theatre for children is right up there in importance with reading aloud. It used to be part of our heritage many years ago and we've lost it and we've lost everything to screens in this culture and we need to bring it back."
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"The most important thing you can teach actors is to understand plays."
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"A lot of what acting is paying attention."
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"It was only in the theatre that I lived"
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"The theater needs continual reminders that there is nothing more debasing than the work of those who do well what is not worth doing at all."
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"It's quite possible we may actually be looking at some kind of super-sanity here. A brilliant new modification of human perception, more suited to urban life at the end of the twentieth century...He creates himself each day. He sees himself as the lord of misrule and the world as a theatre of the absurd."
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"A theatre receives recognition through its initiative, which is indispensable for first-rate performances."
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"I love the rehearsal process in the theatre, and the visceral sense of contact and communication with a live audience."
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