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"There's no drama like wrestling."
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"Your uncle," Poseidon sighed, "has always had a flair for dramatic exits. I think he would've done well as the god of theater."

"The Complete Work is essentially dramatic, thought it takes different forms - prose passages in this first volume, poems and philosophies in other volumes. It's the product of the temperament I've been blessed or cursed with - I'm not sure which. All I know is that the author of these lines (I'm not sure if also of these books) has never had just one personality, and has never thought or felt except dramatically - that is, through invented persons, or personalities, who are more capable than he of feeling what's to be felt."

"You men have none of you any hearts.''If we have not hearts, we have eyes; and they give us torment enough."

"But how can the characters in a play guess the plot? We are not the playwright, we are not the producer, we are not even the audience. We are on the stage. To play well the scenes in which we are "on" concerns us much more than to guess about the scenes that follow it."

"Gabby, Jenna cried. 'It's so horrible. I can't believe this happened.'Jenna, I said in a soothing voice, 'I'm alive and okay. No worries.She sniffled into the phone. 'No, it's not that.I waited a beat. 'What?'The bridesmaid dresses are all wrong! she wailed.'Wait a second, I said. 'You aren't upset over my being dead for four days?'I knew you'd be fine, she explained, brushing off the subject. 'But these dresses? I don't know what to do. They're the wrong color, and they're hideous! She went into a hysterical fit of tears."
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"My mother sent me to psychiatrists since the age of four because she didn't think little boys should be sad. When my brother was born, I stared out the window for days. Can you imagine that?"

"While all the other kids were out playing ball and stuff, I used to stay in my room and imagine that there was a camera in the wall. And I used to really believe that I was putting on a television show and that it was going out to somewhere in the world."

"I just want real reactions. I want people to laugh from the gut, be sad from the gut-or get angry from the gut."

"If I play my cards right, I could bring network wrestling back to TV. Unfortunately, to most people, wrestling is a laughingstock. But fortunately, I'm reaching people who otherwise wouldn't watch it."

"What's real? What's not? That's what I do in my act, test how other people deal with reality."

"When I perform, it's very personal. I'm sharing things I like, inviting the audience into my room."
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