The instinct to impersonate produces the actor; the desire to provide pleasure by impersonations produces the playwright; the desire to provide this pleasure with adequate characterization and dialogue memorable in itself produces dramatic literature.
George P. Baker Quotes
In the best farce today we start with some absurd premise as to character or situation, but if the premises be once granted we move logically enough to the ending.
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