The crowd may be influenced easily, largely because it is a crowd.

A visit to a cinema is a little outing in itself. It breaks the monotony of an afternoon or evening; it gives a change from the surroundings of home, however pleasant.

Actors who are lovers in real life are often incapable if playing the part of lovers to an audience. It is equally true that sympathy between actors who are not lovers may create a temporary emotion that is perfectly sincere.

There are very few misanthropes, thank goodness!

The public must suffer untold pangs from the stiffness, the deliberate stifling of emotion, on the part of many British actors.

Every blessed one of you feels better for that burst of laughter.

Behind the footlights there is always the applause, which stimulates the actors. On the screen it is a different matter.