Background Image
On the stage . . . masks are assumed with some regard to procedure; in everyday life, the participants act their parts without consideration either for suitability of scene or for the words spoken by the rest of the cast: the result is a general tendency for things to be brought to the level of farce even when the theme is serious enough.
-Anthony Powell
Please Wait....
Translating....

On The Stage . . . Masks

Anthony Powell
On the stage . . . masks are assumed with some regard to procedure; in everyday life, the participants act their parts without consideration either for suitability of scene or for the words spoken by the rest of the cast: the result is a general tendency for things to be brought to the level of farce even when the theme is serious enough.
Views: 5
Cite this Page
Prevent plagiarism by providing proper attribution.
APA FORMAT
Embed this Quote
Copy this HTML code to embed the quote on your website or blog.
HTML CODE
Topic
Life Everyday Farce

More From Anthony Powell

There is a great difference, whether the poet seeks the particular for the sake of the general or sees the general in the particular. from the former procedure there ensues allegory, in which the particular serves only as illustration, as example of the general. the latter procedure, however, is genuinely the nature of poetry; it expresses something particular, without thinking of the general or pointing to it.
Thinking Illustration Differences
Sometimes we don't need words. rather, it's words that need us. if we were no longer here, words would lose their whole function. they would end up as words that are never spoken, and words that aren't spoken are no longer words. - (where i'm likely to find it)
Needs Sometimes Function
A constitution is not the act of a government, but of a people constituting a government; and government without a constitution is power without a right. all power exercised over a nation, must have some beginning. it must be either delegated, or assumed. there are not other sources. all delegated power is trust, and all assumed power is usurpation. time does not alter the nature and quality of either.
Trust Government People
I love actors and i understand what has to happen within a scene. any scene is an acting scene and actors never act alone, so there has to be an interchange. if it's a dialog scene, if it's a love scene, it doesn't matter because you need to establish a situation.
Acting Needs Actors
If only,’ shiroyama dreams, ‘human beings were not masks behind masks behind masks. if only this world was a clean board of lines and intersections. if only time was a sequence of considered moves and not a chaos of slippages and blunders.
Dream Moving Boards
What is a scene? a) a scene starts and ends in one place at one time (the aristotelian unities of time and place-this stuff goes waaaayyyy back). b) a scene starts in one place emotionally and ends in another place emotionally. starts angry, ends embarrassed. starts lovestruck, ends disgusted. c) something happens in a scene, whereby the character cannot go back to the way things were before. make sure to finish a scene before you go on to the next. make something happen.
Character Unity Goes On
Similar Quotes
In every film, whether it's a fictional character or not, you create an idea of the character and for me i always do a bad impersonation to start with.
Character Ideas Film
Our most valuable teachers are our enemies.while our friends can help us in many ways, only our enemies can provide us with the challenge we need to develop tolerance, patience, and compassionthree virtues essential for building character, developing peace of mind, and bringing us true happiness.
Teacher Character Challenges
I'm so sick of hearing how there's no strong roles for women. i don't care about strong roles. i just want to see women who are characters! a nun, a serial killer, a housewife, as long as there's some depth there.
Strong Women Character Sick
I can talk endlessly about characters, or why someone did this or that, and what that dynamic and interaction is. i really love it, and i think that actors really respond positively to the fact that i like to talk about that stuff, because i'm not sure that all directors do.
Character Thinking Actors

Trending Author

Ice Cube
Ice Cube
Ted Shawn
Ted Shawn
Georg C. Lichtenberg
Georg C. Lichtenberg
Larry Bird
Larry Bird
Carolyn Maloney
Carolyn Maloney
Robert Quillen
Robert Quillen
Category
Information
Inspirational
Philosophy
Personal Growth
Happiness & Joy
Life Lessons
Success & Business
Motivation