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| A play is fiction — and fiction is fact distilled into truth.
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| If you really want to help the American theater, don't be an actress, darling. Be an audience.
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One can play comedy, two are required for melodrama, but a tragedy demands three.
— Elbert Hubbard, from Little Journeys to the Homes of Great Lovers, 1906 |
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| The secret of playwriting can be given in two maxims: stick to the point, and whenever you can, cut.
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| Often as he sneered at Plato, Aristotle never called him a playwright.
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| The playwright of today likes to believe that he is throwing light upon his time, when his time is actually throwing light upon him.
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| In order to fully realize how bad a popular play can be, it is necessary to see it twice.
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| The theater is a great equalizer: it is the only place where the poor can look down on the rich.
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| When they have a success, the producers think they are brilliant, but when they have a failure, they think the public are fools.
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| A playwright is a lay preacher peddling the ideas of his time in popular form.
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| By increasing the size of the keyhole, today's playwrights are in danger of doing away with the door.
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| As far as my work is concerned [the ideal dramatic criticism is] unqualified appreciation.
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| Musicals - a series of catastrophes ending with a floor show.
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| Acting is merely the art of keeping a large number of people from coughing.
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| Know your lines and don't bump into the furniture.
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| Acting is standing up naked and turning around slowly.
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| The theater is so endlessly fascinating because it is so accidental. It's so much like life.
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| The business of the dramatist is to keep out of sight and let nothing appear but his characters.
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| 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 ...
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| Whoever condemns the theater is an enemy of his country.
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