"As far as I could discover, the notion that a play could succeed without any further help from the actor than a simple impersonation of his part never occurred to Tree."

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Source : Sir Max Beerbohm, Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree (1924*). “Hebert Beerbohm Tree: some memories of him and of his art collected by Max Beerbohm”

Herbert Beerbohm Tree

#Simple Quotes #Play Quotes #Tree Quotes

“Crazy Love is crazy good! Leslie What's brain is evidently crowded with strangeness, awfulness, wonderfulness, wildness, madness of all kinds...and love. Lots of love. How lucky we are that her imagination runs deep, runs true, runs onto the page in crazily beautiful stories -- and lucky, so very lucky, to be holding those stories right now in our hands.”
“Good systems tend to violate normal human tendencies.”
“All the insight we will ever need to live well will come from fully being who and where we are.”
“The person who has stopped being thankful has fallen asleep in life.”
“When sex gets problematic, the totalitarianist walks in.”
“Itâ€™s nice to be liked, but itâ€™s better by far to get paid.”
“How deeply bound by cords of family anger we all are[...]None of us breaks free.”
“If envy was not such a tearing thing to feel it would be the most comic of sins. It is usually, if not always, based on a complete misunderstanding of another person's situation.”

Source : Monica Furlong (1982). “Christian Uncertainties”

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