“We do on stage things that are supposed to happen off. Which is a kind of integrity, if you look on every exit as being an entrance somewhere else.”

Source: Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead

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British playwright 1937

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“Look on every exit as being an entrance somewhere else.”

Source: Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead

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“All the world's a stage,
And all the men and women merely players;
They have their exits and their entrances;
And one man in his time plays many parts,
His acts being seven ages.”

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Variant: All the world's a stage,
And all the men and women merely players:
They have their exits and their entrances;
And one man in his time plays many parts.
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“Actresses are such very dull people off the stage. We are only delightful and brilliant when we are doing what we are told to do. Off stage we are awful chumps.”

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As quoted in Dame Edith Evans, ch. 12, by Bryan Forbes (1977)

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