A Quote by Miguel de Cervantes
The most perceptive character in a play is the fool, because the man who wishes to seem simple cannot possibly be a simpleton.
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The most difficult character in comedy is that of the fool, and he must be no simpleton that plays that part.
One great difference between a wise man and a fool is, the former only wishes for what he may possibly obtain; the latter desires impossibilities.
My father was a simple man; my mother was a simple woman; you see the result standing in front of you, a simpleton.
I'm sometimes sort of in touch with the readership, and they seem to have perceptive questions, for the most part.
Gravity must be natural and simple; there must be urbanity and tenderness in it. A man must not formalize on everything. He who does so is a fool; and a grave fool is, perhaps, more injurious than a light fool.
Show me a man or woman who cannot stand mysteries and I will show you a fool, a clever fool - perhaps - but a fool just the same.
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I'd really like to play a character who's inarticulate. I always play people with language. It would be good to play a mute or a fool or a saint.
A warrior, or any man for that matter, cannot possibly wish he were somewhere else; a warrior because he lives by challenge, an ordinary man because he doesn't know where his death is going to find him.
By the study of their biographies, we receive each man as a guest into our minds, and we seem to understand their character as the result of a personal acquaintance, because we have obtained from their acts the best and most important means of forming an opinion about them. "What greater pleasure could'st thou gain than this?" What more valuable for the elevation of our own character?
Until a character becomes a personality it cannot be believed. Without personality, the character may do funny or interesting things, but unless people are able to identify themselves with the character, its actions will seem unreal. And without personality, a story cannot ring true to the audience.
Any actor who judges his character is a fool - for every role you play you've got to absorb that character's motives and justifications.
I lead a simple lifestyle but that doesn't mean I am a foolish simpleton!
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A man of the world must seem to be what he wishes to be thought.
The affairs of the world are no more than so much trickery, and a man who toils for money or honour or whatever else in deference to the wishes of others, rather than because his own desire or needs lead him to do so, will always be a fool.
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