Acting

1. The most difficult character in comedy is that of the fool, and he must be no simpleton that plays that part.
                                                  -Cervantes 

2. When an actor has money, he doesn't send letters but telegrams.
                                                            -Anton Chekhov

3. The drama's laws, the drama's patrons give.
                                          -Samuel Johnson,
                                                  Prologue

4. For we that live to please, must please to live.    
                                            -Samuel Johnson,
                                                    Prologue

5. The play's the thing.
                  -Shakespeare, Hamlet 
                           Act II, Sc 2.