You are a living mockery of your own ideals. If not, you have set your ideals too low.
Year in and year out, under the guise of the Ridiculous, we attempt the Sublime.
If one is not a living mockery of one's own ideals, one has set one's ideals too low.
The theatre has always been to me a place where beautiful lies are told, and playwrighting the orchestration of platitudes around a central flaw in logic or a ridiculous idea. Acting — the disguise and impersonation — is an art of deception.