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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 best thing commercially, which is the worst artistically, by and large, is the most successful. – 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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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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Show business is the best possible therapy for remorse. – Anita Loos

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

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Show business is really 90 per cent luck and 10 per cent being able to handle it when it gets offered to you. – Tommy Steele

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