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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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I have the terrible feeling that, because I am wearing a white beard and am sitting in the back of the theatre, you expect me to tell you the truth about something. These are the cheap seats, not Mount Sinai. – Orson Welles

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Truth
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The best thing commercially, which is the worst artistically, by and large, is the most successful. – Orson Welles

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best
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I do not suppose I shall be remembered for anything. But I dont think about my work in those terms. It is just as vulgar to work for the sake of posterity as to work for the sake of money. – Orson Welles

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Money
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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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Entertainment

Fun can be the dessert of our lives but never its main course. – Rabbi Harold S. Kushner

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Entertainment

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

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Entertainment

Im the end of the line; absurd and appalling as it may seem, serious New York theater has died in my lifetime. – Arthur Miller

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Entertainment

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The nude scenes were a little eerie and I felt a bit odd. Yeah, when the camera scanned up my body, I said to my friend, Now, thats a close-up. I mean, you see every inch of my body. But Im okay with it and so it was cool. – Natasha Henstridge

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The art of the critic in a nutshell: to coin slogans without betraying ideas. The slogans of an inadequate criticism peddle ideas to fashion. – Walter Benjamin

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