Farce treats the improbable as probable, the impossible as possible.

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.

The drama is a great revealer of life.

Farce treats the improbable as probable, the impossible as possible.

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 read to oneself is never drama at its best, and is not even drama as it should be.

Rare is the human being, immature or mature, who has never felt an impulse to pretend he is some one or something else.