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• The live entertainment Canadians like most is the intimate review, a collection of songs and sketches, preferably with a satirical bias.

  William T. Wiley

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• I took an acting class. After the first day, the teacher quit, so they said take another. When I saw ‘How to be a Stand-up Comedian,’ it resonated. I realized I’d rather make 200 people laugh than make one person cry.

  Wendy Liebman

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• All the movies used to be ‘colossal’. Now they’re all ‘frank’. I think I liked ‘colossal’ better.

  Beryl Pfizer

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

  Sir Peter Ustinov

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• Acting is a question of absorbing other people’s personalities and adding some of your own experience.

  Paul Leonard Newman

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• I know it was wonderful, but I don’t know how I did it.

  Laurence Olivier

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• Bugs Bunny – the perfect employee. Never absent. Never late. Never changes the script. Doesn’t have an agent. Never asks for a percent of the profit. Doesn’t ask to have his relatives on the payroll.

  Unknown

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• Bugs Bunny – the perfect employee. Never absent. Never late. Never changes the script. Doesn’t have an agent. Never asks for a percent of the profit. Doesn’t ask to have his relatives on the payroll.

  Unknown

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• The real actor – like any real artistj- has a direct line to the collective heart.

  Bette Davis

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• The best actors do not let the wheels show.

  Henry Fonda

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• A talent for drama is not a talent for writing, but is an ability to articulate human relationships.

  Gore Vidal

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• You need three things in the theatre – the play, the actors and the audience and each must give something.

  Kenneth Haigh

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• Hamlet is the tragedy of tackling a family problem too soon after college.

  Thomas Lansing Masson

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• A film is never really good unless the camera is an eye in the head of a poet.

  Orson Welles

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• The whole motivation for any performer is ‘Look at me, Ma.’

  Lenny Bruce

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• If you give audiences a chance they’ll do half your acting for you.

  Katharine Hepburn

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• Satire is what closes Saturday night.

  George S. Kaufman

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• A play should give you something to think about. When I see a play and understand it the first time, then I know it can’t be much good.

  T. S. Eliot

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• We do not go (to the theatre) like our ancestors, to escape from the pressure of reality, so much as to confirm our experience of it.

  Charles Lamb

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• A play visibly represents pure existing.

  Thornton Wilder

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