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 Like hungry guests, a sitting audience looks;
 Plays are like suppers; poets are the cooks.
  The founder's read more 
 Like hungry guests, a sitting audience looks;
 Plays are like suppers; poets are the cooks.
  The founder's you: the table is the place:
   The carvers we: the prologue is the grace.
    Each act, a course, each scene, a different dish,
     Though we're in Lent, I doubt you're still for flesh.
      Satire's the sauce, high-season'd, sharp and rough.
       Kind masks and beaux, I hope you're pepperproof?
        Wit is the wine; but 'tis so scarce the true
         Poets, like vintners, balderdash and brew.
          Your surly scenes, where rant and bloodshed join.
           Are butcher's meat, a battle's sirloin:
            Your scenes of love, so flowing, soft and chaste,
             Are water-gruel without salt or taste. 
 Like a dull actor now,
 I have forgot my part, and I am out,
  Even to a read more 
 Like a dull actor now,
 I have forgot my part, and I am out,
  Even to a full disgrace. 
You need three things in the theatre--the play, the actors and the audience,--and each must give something.
You need three things in the theatre--the play, the actors and the audience,--and each must give something.
Someone who's like Angelina Jolie because she isn't scared of not being pretty. She's my favourtie actress. I'd love a read more
Someone who's like Angelina Jolie because she isn't scared of not being pretty. She's my favourtie actress. I'd love a role like the one she played in 'Girl, Interrupted'. I've never met her.. I'd be so nervous! And star-struck!
 On the stage he was natural, simple, affecting
 'Twas only that when he was off, he was acting.  
 On the stage he was natural, simple, affecting
 'Twas only that when he was off, he was acting. 
Acting is not being emotional, but being able to express emotion.
Acting is not being emotional, but being able to express emotion.
A good actor must never be in love with anyone but himself.
A good actor must never be in love with anyone but himself.
 If it be true that good wine needs no bush, 'tis true that a good 
play needs no epilogue.  
 If it be true that good wine needs no bush, 'tis true that a good 
play needs no epilogue. 
This is the Jew that Shakespeare drew.
This is the Jew that Shakespeare drew.