"If We Were Villains" Quotes
A group of Shakespearean actors at an elite arts school become entangled in a real-life tragedy mirroring the roles they play on stage.
mystery | 368 pages | Published in 2017
Quotes
All the world’s a stage, and all the men and women merely players.
The truth is, we all have a past. We all have things we'd rather forget, and if we don't, we invent them.
Acting is not about being someone different. It's finding the similarity in what is apparently different, then finding myself in there.
Words have a remarkable power. They can make us laugh, they can make us cry, they can transport us to new worlds.
Just because something is not a lie does not mean that it isn't deceptive. A liar knows that he is a liar, but one who speaks mere portions of truth in order to deceive is a craftsman of destruction.
To be or not to be, that is the question.
Theater is about truth. It’s about revealing the raw, brutal, beautiful parts of ourselves, and those parts of ourselves that we wish didn’t exist.
If we were villains, we wouldn’t be real, but we are real, and we are villains. What we do, we do. We can’t just turn the page.
The poet’s voice need not merely be the record of man, it can be one of the props, the pillars to help him endure and prevail.
There’s an art to everything, you know?
