I was clinically depressed. I was paranoid. I was agoraphobic. I would have days at a time of not being able to even bathe or brush my teeth.
Farce treats the improbable as probable, the impossible as possible.
Acted drama requires surrender of one's self, sympathetic absorption in the play as it develops.
What then is tragedy? In the Elizabethan period it was assumed that a play ending in death was a tragedy, but in recent years we have come to understand that to live on is sometimes far more tragic than death.
We do not kill the drama, we do not really limit its appeal by failing to encourage the best in it; but we do thereby foster the weakest and poorest elements.
There is no essential difference between the material of comedy and tragedy. All depends on the point of view of the dramatist, which, by clever emphasis, he tries to make the point of view of his audience.
The drama is a great revealer of life.
The key to the ability to change is a changeless sense of who you are, what you are about and what you value.
Success leaves clues, and if you sow the same seeds, youll reap the same rewards.
You'd have to be an imbecile or hypocrite to imagine that a professional cyclist who rides 235 days a year can hold himself together without stimulants.
It is always so pleasant to be generous, though very vexatious to pay debts.