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Arguments are extremely vulgar, for everybody in good society holds exactly the same opinions.
All art is quite useless.
There is always something ridiculous about the emotions of people whom one has ceased to love.
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This suspense is terrible. I hope it will last.
Only the shallow know themselves.
Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.
Friendship is far more tragic than love. It lasts longer.
The youth of America is their oldest tradition. It has been going on now for three hundred years.
Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go.
Lawyers have been known to wrest from reluctant juries triumphant verdicts of acquittal for their clients, even when those clients, as often happens, were clearly and unmistakably innocent.
The mere mechanical technique of acting can be taught, but the spirit that is to give life to lifeless forms must be born in a man. No dramatic college can teach its pupils to think or to feel. It is Nature who makes our artists for us, though it may be Art who taught them their right mode of expression.
I love acting. It is so much more real than life.
I regard the theatre as the greatest of all art forms, the most immediate way in which a human being can share with another the sense of what it is to be a human being.
While we look to the dramatist to give romance to realism, we ask of the actor to give realism to romance.
There are moments, psychologists tell us, when the passion for sin, or what the world calls sin, so dominates a nature, that every fibre of the body, as every cell of the brain, seems to be instinct with fearful impulses. Men and women at such moments lose the freedom of their will. They move to their terrible end as automatons move. Choice is taken from them, and conscience is either killed, or, if it lives at all, lives but to give rebellion its fascination, and disobedience its charm.
It is not good for one's morals to see bad acting
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Nothing spoils romance so much as a sense of humor in the woman
