Help us to complete the source, original and additional information
Steven Wright 178
American actor and author 1955Related quotes
"That Lonesome Road", written with Don Grolnick
Song lyrics, Dad Love His Work (1981)
“I have twice seen Macready act; once in Macbeth and once in Othello.”
I astounded a dinner-party by honestly saying I did not like him. It is the fashion to rave about his splendid acting; anything more false and artificial, less genuinely impressive than his whole style, I could scarcely have imagined. The fact is, the stage-system altogether is hollow nonsense. They act farces well enough; the actors comprehend their parts and do them justice. They comprehend nothing about tragedy or Shakespeare, and it is a failure. I said so, and by so saying produced a blank silence, a mute consternation.
Charlotte Brontë, on William Macready. Charlotte Brontë and Her Circle, (by Clement King Shorter) (1896)
“I keep forgetting about your amnesia. Heh. Forgetting about amnesia. That's funny.”
Source: The Lost Hero
“I loved but once, yet twice I lose my love!”
Roxane, Act 5, Sc. 6
Cyrano de Bergerac (1897)
“If I had amnesia, I'd be almost like other men. Perhaps I'd even be able to love you.”
Raimon to Regina. p. 17
All Men are Mortal (1946)
The Devil's Dictionary (1911)
“Once I did bad and that I heard ever. Twice I did good, but that I heard never.”
Source: How to Win Friends and Influence People
