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• I took an acting class. After the first day, the teacher quit, so they said take another. When I saw ‘How to be a Stand-up Comedian,’ it resonated. I realized I’d rather make 200 people laugh than make one person cry.

  Wendy Liebman

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• Bugs Bunny – the perfect employee. Never absent. Never late. Never changes the script. Doesn’t have an agent. Never asks for a percent of the profit. Doesn’t ask to have his relatives on the payroll.

  Unknown

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• As an actor, he should be an extra in police line-ups.

  Robert H. Gurney

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• Playing Shakespeare is very tiring. You never get to sit down, unless you’re a king.

  Josephine Hull

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• Long experience has taught me that in England nobody goes to the theatre unless he or she has bronchitis.

  James Agate

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• In Hollywood, if you don’t have happiness, you send out for it.

  Rex Reed

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• On stage I make love to twenty-five thousand people; then I go home alone.

  Janis Joplin

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• There are five stages to an actor’s career: who is Herschel Bernardi? get me Herschel Bernardi; get me a Herschel Bernardi type; get me a young Herschel Bernardi; and who is Herschel Bernardi?

  Herschel Bernardi

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• The unique thing about Margaret Rutherford is that she can act with her chin alone. Among its many moods I especially cherish the chin commanding, the chin in doubt, and the chin at bay.

  Kenneth Tynan

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• Very few people go to the doctor when they have a cold, they go to the theatre instead.

  W. Boyd Gatewood

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• I know it was wonderful, but I don’t know how I did it.

  Laurence Olivier

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• Actor-manager – one to whom the part is greater than the whole.

  Ronald Jeans

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• I sometimes wish they would swagger more now, buy bigger overcoats and wilder hats, and retain those traces of make-up that put them outside respectability and keep them rogues and vagabonds, which is what, at heart – bless ’em – they are.

  J. B. Priestley

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• I sweat. If anything comes easy to me, I mistrust it.

  Lilli Palmer

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• A play visibly represents pure existing.

  Thornton Wilder

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• We do not go (to the theatre) like our ancestors, to escape from the pressure of reality, so much as to confirm our experience of it.

  Charles Lamb

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• By increasing the size of the keyhole, today’s playwrights are in danger of doing away with the door.

  Peter Ustinov

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• A play should give you something to think about. When I see a play and understand it the first time, then I know it can’t be much good.

  T. S. Eliot

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• Satire is what closes Saturday night.

  George S. Kaufman

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• All the movies used to be ‘colossal’. Now they’re all ‘frank’. I think I liked ‘colossal’ better.

  Beryl Pfizer

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