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Acting is not a state of being ... but a state of appearing to be.
Noel Coward
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Noel Coward
Age: 73 †
Born: 1899
Born: December 16
Died: 1973
Died: March 26
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I never cared who scored the goal, or which side won the silver cup. I never learned to bat or bowl but I heard the curtain going up.
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My life really has been one long extravaganza.
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I will accept anything in the theatre . . . provided it amuses or moves me. But if it does neither, I want to go home.
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Your motivation is your pay packet on Friday. Now get on with it.
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My body has certainly wandered a good deal, but I have an uneasy suspicion that my mind has not wandered enough.
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A perfect martini should be made by filling a glass with gin then waving it in the general direction of Italy.
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If you must have motivation, think of your paycheck on Friday.
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Mad dogs and Englishmen go out in the mid-day sun.
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I'll go and see anything so long as it amuses me, or moves me. If it doesn't do either I want to go home.
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The theatre should be treated with respect. The theatre is a wonderful place, a house of strange enchantment, a temple of illusion. What it most emphatically is not and never will be is a scruffy, ill-lit, fumed-oak drill hall serving as a temporary soap box for political propaganda.
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It's no good pacing up and down. It won't make the plane arrive any faster. Just sit down and accept that we're delayed. You're just making a fool of yourself.
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Star quality: I don't know what it is, but I've got it.
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I'm over-educated in the things I shouldn't have known at all.
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I see her as one great stampede of lips directed at the nearest derriere.
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I can take any amount of criticism, as long as it is unqualified praise.
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There are bad times just around the corner, There are dark clouds travelling through the sky, And it's no good whining, About a silver lining, For we know from experience they won't roll by...
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I don't much care for Hollywood, I'd rather have a nice cup of cocoa.
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To take a gloomy view of life is not part of my philosophy to laugh at the idiocies of my fellow creatures is. However, at this particular moment I cannot find so much to laugh at as I would like.
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I'm an enormously talented man, and there's no use pretending that I'm not.
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I'll go through life either first class or third, but never in second.
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