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• The theatre is a machine of transformations: everything is transformed into another thing; a bald man has thick hair on his head; a man with strong legs gains a limp and a sharp-eyed person becomes blind; an actor who is an atheist immediately turns into the most pious priest on earth!

• Mehmet ildan, William Shakespeare, Theatre Play, ed. 1st, Act II, Scene IV, p. 65, (2002).

• I don’t like to be my own audience, I find that being my own audience, being in the audience, makes me self-conscious, basically. So I tune in sometimes, with the sound off, to check it out and I back up to it. In the future I will look at it when some time has passed.

• Madeline Kahn, interview with Charlie Rose, (December 16, 1996) “Charlie Rose – An interview with Madeline Kahn”, Charlie Rose, PBS

• All the world’s a stage / And all the men and women merely players / They have their exits and their entrances / And one man in his time plays many parts …

• William Shakespeare, “All the world’s a stage”, As You Like It, Jaques (Act II, Scene VII, lines 139-166)

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

• Peter Ustinov, Christian Science Monitor, (1962) – reported in Colin Jarman (1993). The Book of Poisonous Quotes. McGraw-Hill Professional, p. 104. ISBN 0809236818.

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• A play is fiction – and fiction is fact distilled into truth.

• Edward Albee, reported in James Beasley Simpson (1998). Simpson’s contemporary quotations: The Most Notable Quotes Since 1950. Houghton Mifflin, p. 398. ISBN 0395430852.

• If you want to help the American theater, don’t be an actress, be an audience.

• Tallulah Bankhead, reported in Evan Esar (April 1995). 20,000 quips & quotes. Barnes & Noble Publishing, p. 806. ISBN 1566195292.

• The theater is a great equalizer: it is the only place where the poor can look down on the rich.

• Will Rogers, reported in Evan Esar (April 1995). 20,000 quips & quotes. Barnes & Noble Publishing, p. 807. ISBN 1566195292.

• A playwright is a lay preacher peddling the ideas of his time in popular form.

• August Strindberg, reported in Colin Jarman (1993). The Book of Poisonous Quotes. McGraw-Hill Professional, p. 103. ISBN 0809236818.

• Acting is merely the art of keeping a large number of people from coughing.

• Ralph Richardson, reported in Ashton Applewhite; Tripp Evans, Andrew Frothingham (2003). And I Quote: The Definitive Collection of Quotes, Sayings, and Jokes for the Contemporary Speechmaker. Macmillan, p. 283. ISBN 0312307446.

• Know your lines and don’t bump into the furniture.

• Spencer Tracy, reported in Ashton Applewhite; Tripp Evans, Andrew Frothingham (2003). And I Quote: The Definitive Collection of Quotes, Sayings, and Jokes for the Contemporary Speechmaker. Macmillan, p. 283. ISBN 0312307446.

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