I Believe In The Theater; I Believe

I Believe In The Theater; I Believe In It As The First Glamorizer Of Thought. It Restores Dramatic Dynamics And Their Relations To Life Size.

I'm Rather Bored By The Subject - Meaning Me. It's A Sort Of A Yoke, But At Times You Know, A Yoke Is A Kind Of Comfort. And It's Always There.

The Office Of Drama Is To Exercise, Possibly To Exhaust, Human Emotions. The Purpose Of Comedy Is To Tickle Those Emotions Into An Expression Of Light Relief; Of Tragedy, To Wound Them And Bring The Relief Of Tears. Disgust And Terror Are The Other Points Of The Compass.

[on Whether He Harbored Any Resentment At His Forced Retirement From The Stage After He Was Fired By Britain's National Theater] I Should Be Soaring Away With My Head Tilted Slightly Toward The Gods, Feeding On The Caviar Of Shakespeare... An Actor Must Act.

I Am Far From Sure When I Am Acting And When I Am Not Or, Should I More Frankly Put It, When I Am Lying And When I Am Not. For What Is Acting But Lying And What Is Good Acting But Convincing Lying?