. . .the larger the crowd, the more probable that that which it praises is folly, and the more improbable that it is truth; and the most improbable of all that it is any eternal truth.
So it's joyful to me, in my 71st year, to be able to be in a play that is absolutely right for my age and my experience, and that is a popular success. What more could you ask as an actor?
I'd rather share the glory of a hit than star by myself in a flop.
The vulgar and common esteem is seldom happy in hitting right; and I am much mistaken if, amongst the writings of my time, the worst are not those which have most gained the popular applause.
No foreign ruler or man of eminence could have aroused more universal attention, received a warmer welcome or achieved greater popularity among every class of society
The roar of the crowd has always been the sweetest music. It's intoxicating.
Public adulation is the ultimate high.
All that is necessary to raise imbecility into what the mob regards as profundity is to lift it off the floor and put it on a platform.
It is an easy and vulgar thing to please the mob, and no very arduous task to astonish them.
