"Consider the public. Never fear it nor despise it. Coax it, charm it, interest it, stimulate it, shock it now and then if you must, make it laugh, make it cry, but above all never, never, never bore the living hell out of it."

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Source : Noel Coward, Barry Day (2009). “The Essential Noël Coward Compendium: The Very Best of His Work, Life and Times”, p.73, A&C Black

Noel Coward

#Laughing Quotes #Theatre Quotes #Cry Quotes

“If doctors are paid the same salary as bus drivers, community would not be crazy about making their children doctors”
“[Albert Camus]didn't have much hope that things would work out, but he wanted them to. Algeria had reached such a degree of violence that once such violence is created there's no more room for reflection. And there's no mediating position. If you look at Bosnia today, the Croats, Bosnians and Serbs, they've all created so much horror that one starts to wonder how these peoples can live together, after having done what they have. Already the violence has reached such a degree that everybody is living in hate, there's no possibility of reflection, no mediating position.”
“Even if you win in ego it is a loss. Even if you lose in love it is a victory.”
“If you have an idea that's going to make a big difference to people's lives, and other people are not doing it, you know, just say "screw it," do it and get on with it, and give it a go.”
“A democracy without faith is just a machine without power. Nothing can make it function except faith in itself, in the ordinary man and woman.”
“I like European movies because it seems those audiences are a little more patient. Those movies are always slower, where over here, the studio system freaks out if something doesn't happen every five minutes or if anything is confusing.”
“I wish they taught green screen acting classes.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“...often, stepping outside your comfort zone is not careless irresponsibility, but a necessary act of obedience.”

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