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George P. Baker

"The instinct to impersonate produces the actor; the desire to provide pleasure by impersonations produces the playwright; the desire to provide this pleasure with adequate characterization and dialogue memorable in itself produces dramatic literature."

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"The instinct to impersonate produces the actor; the desire to provide pleasure by impersonations produces the playwright; the desire to provide this pleasure with adequate characterization and dialogue memorable in itself produces dramatic literature."

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A.E. Samaan

"My college training was primarily in theatre, with an eye to becoming a director, actor, or producer."

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A.E. Samaan

"You know, whatever happens between the two of us that's created when we come together as actors is not something I think we can explain."

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A.E. Samaan

"I watch actors destroy themselves by trying to get it right."

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A.E. Samaan

"A lot of talented actors still have to pay their bills."

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A.E. Samaan

"I'm not like one of those actors who's a frustrated director."

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A.E. Samaan

"I couldn't have left my career as an actor on a better note than to have done a cameo in the Lost In Space movie. Doing this part is the highlight of my career. What a way to leave the profession!"

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A.E. Samaan

"I'm an actor who hates dialogue and the present day and reality."

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A.E. Samaan

"For no. 1, it's great writing, super writing. The second thing is that it's great chemistry with all the actors. We just all got along from the very start. Very get-go, we all got along. We just - it was just like we were all meant to be there together."

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A.E. Samaan

"I've turned my guest house into this little studio, and we have actors come over and do readings."

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A.E. Samaan

"Being an actor on a movie set is like going to the playground at recess."

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George P. Baker
"Sensitive, responsive, eagerly welcomed everywhere, the drama, holding the mirror up to nature, by laughter and by tears reveals to mankind the world of men."

Men

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George P. Baker
"Acted drama requires surrender of one's self, sympathetic absorption in the play as it develops."

Drama

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George P. Baker
"Drama read to oneself is never drama at its best, and is not even drama as it should be."

Drama

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George P. Baker
"We do not kill the drama, we do not really limit its appeal by failing to encourage the best in it; but we do thereby foster the weakest and poorest elements."

Drama

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George P. Baker
"When the drama attains a characterization which makes the play a revelation of human conduct and a dialogue which characterizes yet pleases for itself, we reach dramatic literature."

Drama

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George P. Baker
"No drama, however great, is entirely independent of the stage on which it is given."

Drama

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George P. Baker
"What then is tragedy? In the Elizabethan period it was assumed that a play ending in death was a tragedy, but in recent years we have come to understand that to live on is sometimes far more tragic than death."

Death

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George P. Baker
"There is no essential difference between the material of comedy and tragedy. All depends on the point of view of the dramatist, which, by clever emphasis, he tries to make the point of view of his audience."

Comedy

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George P. Baker
"Back through the ages of barbarism and civilization, in all tongues, we find this instinctive pleasure in the imitative action that is the very essence of all drama."

Civilization

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George P. Baker
"The instinct to impersonate produces the actor; the desire to provide pleasure by impersonations produces the playwright; the desire to provide this pleasure with adequate characterization and dialogue memorable in itself produces dramatic literature."

Actor

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