The theatre, for all its artifices, depicts life in a sense more truly than history, because the medium has a kindred movement to that of real life, though an artificial setting and form.
The planned sit-down reception is an artificial forum where one is presented with a limited number of persons with whom he can hold a conversation.
Whether the flower looks better in the nosegay than in the meadow where it grew and we had to wet our feet to get it! Is the scholastic air any advantage?
I love fire. I just think it's hypnotic and great, but I've got to tell you - on a sound stage, that stuff scares me.
Gentlemen can now only behave as such, or be tolerated as such, in circumstances that are manifestly contrived or unreal.
Real’ is a dirty word in this place.
When you're recording a TV show, you really feel like you're in a bubble.
Theater represents to me this phenomenon in juxtaposition to real life, where there are all these imposed guidelines.
The bubble's been engineered to allow us to learn from within it.
