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• "If it be true that good wine needs no bush, 'tis true that a good play needs no epilogue."
  By: William Shakespeare, As You Like It (Rosalind at epilogue)
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• "A play there is, my lord, some ten words long, Which is as brief as I have known a play; But by ten words, my lord, it is too long, Which makes it tedious."
  By: William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream (Philostrate at V, i)
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• "Come, sit down, every mother's son, and rehearse your parts."
  By: William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream (Quince at III, i)
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• "The part was aptly fitted and naturally performed."
  By: William Shakespeare
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• "Let those that play your clowns speak no more than is set down for them."
  By: William Shakespeare
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• "I can counterfeit the deep tragedian; Speak and look back, and pry on every side, Tremble and start, at wagging of a straw, Intending deep suspicion."
  By: William Shakespeare
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• "The play bill which is said to have announced the tragedy of Hamlet, the character of the Prince of Denmark being left out."
  By: Sir Walter Scott, The Talisman (prologue), part of the Tales of the Crusaders
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• "Tom Goodwin was an actor-man, Old Drury's pride and boast, In all the light and spritely parts, Especially the ghost."
  By: John Godfrey Saxe, The Ghost Player
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• "It is their province to make the public weep and smile, tremble and resent, and to light all the passions of the human breast in their enthusiastic audiences."
  By: George Augustus Henry Sala
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• "Always act the part--and you can become whatever you wish to become!"
  By: Max Reinhardt
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• "Your scene precariously subsists too long, On French translation and Italian song. Dare to have sense yourselves; assert the stage; Be justly warm'd with your own native rage."
  By: Alexander Pope, Prologue to Addison's Cato (l. 42)
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• "To wake the soul by tender strokes of art, To raise the genius, and to mend the heart; To make mankind, in conscious virtue bold, Live o'er each scene, and be what they behold-- For this the tragic Muse first trod the stage."
  By: Alexander Pope, Prologue to Addison's Cato (l. 1)
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• "There still remains to mortify a wit The many-headed monster of the pit."
  By: Alexander Pope, Horace (ep. I, bk. II, l. 30)
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• "A long, exact, and serious comedy; In every scene some moral let it teach, And, if it can, at once both please and preach."
  By: Alexander Pope, Epistle to Miss Blount--With the Works of Voiture (l. 22)
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• "This is the Jew that Shakespeare drew."
  By: attributed to Alexander Pope, when Macklin was performing Shylock, Feb. 14, 1741
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• "All the world practices the art of acting."
  By: Petronius (Caius Petronius Arbiter)
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