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ORATORY, n. A conspiracy between speech and action to cheat the understanding. A tyranny tempered by stenography.

One day I started cheating. After that, I started winning everything.

To enter a theatre for a performance is to be inducted into a magical space, to be ushered into the sacred arena of the imagination.

When I first saw a Fellini movie, I came out of the movie theatre and decided to become a lawyer! I thought to myself, it's impossible to make something so beautiful!

God will have life to be real; we will be damned, but it shall be theatrical.

Cheating on a quiz show? That's sort of like plagiarizing a comic strip.

I hold theatre acting in such high esteem that it scares me.

I am extraordinarily lucky, I was born in a family of strong moral values, and in my life I was able to do what I liked best: debuts, great theatres, but above all, inner and deep satisfaction.

When playing a role, I would feel more comfortable, as you're given a prescribed way of behaving. So, both Facebook and theatre provide contrived settings that provide the illusion of social interaction.

Musical theatre is something I'm familiar with, I've been doing that.

All the best performers bring to their role something more, something different than what the author put on paper. That's what makes theatre live. That's why it persists.

Cheating is a definite no-no. My man has to be all mine or never mind!

Poetry is a sort of truancy, a dream within the dream of life, a wild flower planted among our wheat.

Nobody "becomes" a character. You can't act unless you are who you are.

There is a kind of classlessness in the theater. The rehearsal pianist, the head carpenter, the stage manager, the star of the show-all are family.

Steroids are for guys who want to cheat opponents.

Those who cannot understand how to put their thoughts on ice should not enter into the heat of debate.

At some point in every racer's life he has to make his peace with cheating. I do not approve of cheating ... at all. Of course, like every successful racer, I differentiate between taking advantage of loopholes in the regulations, stretching the grey areas and outright cheating. In any given racing series I will not start the cheating. If someone else starts it, I will appeal to them and to the officials to stop it. If my efforts do not succeed, then I'll show them how it is done.

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.

Left-wing social policies sicken our behavior and corrupt our culture. People bend principles and sacrifice integrity to get as much as they can from the government. Giveaway programs encourage every imaginable sort of cheating and dishonesty. Wheeling and dealing in food stamps is a way of life. Lying and fraud are commonplace. Whenever you're dependent on the money, the end justifies the means.

You take a plug and put it in a socket, and that's what the theatre is-it lights up right away. You speak, and they respond immediately.

You know, there's a million fine looking women in the world, dude, but they don't all bring you lasagna at work. Most of 'em just cheat on you.

Theatre is simply what cannot be expressed by any other means; a complexity of words, movements, gestures that convey a vision of the world inexpressible in any other way.

Acting is the art of speaking in a loud, clear voice and the avoidance of bumping into the furniture.

You must never actually cheat the customer, even if you can. You must make her happy and satisfied, so she will come back.