Dramatic Artist Gifts

"The minute I read this play, I knew I had to bring the hammer of our judicial system down on everybody connected with it, but before I do, I'd like to audition for the part of Eddie."

"To torture an insect or not to torture an insect, that is the question."

Jean-Paul Sartre

Southwark Fair.

"To be or not to be."

Canned laughter for sale in Theatrical Supplies shop.

Scarpia from Tosca

"Oh, mournful and terrible engine of horror and crime—of agony and of death, not asparagus again!"

Brünnhilde's Funeral Pyre

Comedy and tragedy masks

Jack-a-box in the theatre.

A man taking a bow

'The classic masks of Comedy and Tragedy, or as they're now known, emoticons.'

Henrik Ibsen,

We Will Beat Any Genuine Quote...

"Leon, honey, you break all the rules of dramaturgy."

'Shakespeare, what do you say we write a comedy?'

'We'll send you to acting class when you're older. For now, get up and get ready for school.'

Tosca stabs Scarpia

'Look Chaucer, there goes that rotten plagiarist Shakespeare again!'

James Barrie.

The Modern Godot

'Shakespeare's Hamlet word for word - and I who always thought it was a crazy joke.'

John Masefield.

"An actor ... huh, that’s funny, because you look just like a waiter."

"Although the depiction of gangland activity in this film is not accurate over all, I would like to go on record as saying that I am not entirely displeased with Mr. Robert De Niro's portrayal of a gentleman whom I take to have been a former associate of yours truly."

Eugene Ionesco

"‘How I Spent My Summer Vacation in a Freaking Gymnastics Camp and Nearly Broke My Neck,’ by Delia McConnell."

'Just tell him two quarts of milk and a pint of cream, Will- it doesn't have to be a sonnet.'

Scientific Method Acting

"Tonight the part normally played by the audience will be played by actors playing the part of the audience."

Henrik Ibsen

An opera singer