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The essential is to excite the spectators. If that means playing H

The essential is to excite the spectators. If that means playing Hamlet on a flying trapeze or in an aquarium, you do it. – Orson Welles

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The enemy of society is middle class and the enemy of life is middle age. – Orson Welles

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Did you ever stop to think why cops are always famous for being dumb? Simple. Because they dont have to be anything else. – Orson Welles

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The ultimate sin of any performer is contempt for the audience. – Lester Bangs

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Americans dont spend billions for entertainment. They spend it in search of entertainment. – Source Unknown

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The Miss America contest is the most perfectly rendered theater in our culture, for it so perfectly captures what we yearn for: a low-class ritual, a polished restatement of vulgarity, that wants to open the door to high-class respectability by way of plain middle-class anxiety and ambition. – Gerald Early

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The reason Im in this business, I assume all performers are — its Look at me, Ma! Its acceptance, you know — Look at me, Ma, look at me, Ma, look at me, Ma. And if your mother watches, youll show off till youre exhausted; but if your mother goes, Ptshew! – Lenny Bruce

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It is the timber of poetry that wears most surely, and there is no timber that has not strong roots among the clay and worms. – John Millington Synge

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Only the dead have seen the end of war. – Plato

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Some things become so completely our own that we forget them. – Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin

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Just because you do not take an interest in politics doesnt mean politics wont take an interest in you. – Pericles

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