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Back through the ages of barbarism and civilization, in all tongues, we find this instinctive pleasure in the imitative action that is…
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But what is drama? Broadly speaking, it is whatever by imitative action rouses interest or gives pleasure.
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Drama read to oneself is never drama at its best, and is not even drama as it should be.
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Farce treats the improbable as probable, the impossible as possible.
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In all the great periods of the drama perfect freedom of choice and subject, perfect freedom of individual treatment, and an audience…
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In reading plays, however, it should always be remembered that any play, however great, loses much when not seen in action.
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In the best farce today we start with some absurd premise as to character or situation, but if the premises be once…
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No drama, however great, is entirely independent of the stage on which it is given.
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Out of the past come the standards for judging the present; standards in turn to be shaped by the practice of present-day…
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Rare is the human being, immature or mature, who has never felt an impulse to pretend he is some one or something…
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Sensitive, responsive, eagerly welcomed everywhere, the drama, holding the mirror up to nature, by laughter and by tears reveals to mankind the…
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The drama is a great revealer of life.
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It's against my programming to impersonate a deity.
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Don't impersonate. Innovate.
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My advice, Be healthy, reach your own goals and don't be afraid to impersonate a SNL star.
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When you did impressions on 'MADtv,' the producers gave you a Walkman that played huge sections of whatever movie was being parodied,…
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Would you not like to try all sorts of lives - one is so very small - but that is the satisfaction…
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I learned to impersonate the kind of person that talks about poetry. It comes from teaching, I think.
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I just love to impersonate people, and I impersonate people because I find them fascinating.
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It's funny - if you impersonate somebody, they have no idea it's them.
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I used to dress up and impersonate our next-door neighbor, Miss Cox. She wore rubber boots, a wool hat, and her nose…
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