Actor

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In really goad acting we should be able to believe that what we hear and see is of our own imagining; it should seem to us as a charming dream
The most difficult character in comedy is that of the fool, and he must be no simpleton that plays that part
Why, except as a means of livelihood, a man should desire to act on the stage when he has the whole world to act in, is not clear to me
If in an actor there appears an utter vacancy of meaning, a frigid equality, a stupid languor, a torpid apathy, the greatest kindness that can be shown him is a speedy sentence of expulsion
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On Anger: "For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind."
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On Destiny: "Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today."
Human, All Too Human
On Friendship: "A crowd is not company; and faces are but a gallery of pictures; and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love."
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