Everybody worships me, it's nauseating.
Extraordinary how potent cheap music is.
Mona Lisa looks as if she has just been sick, or is about to be.
In the first act, you get the audience's attention - once you have it, they will repay you in the second. Play through the laughs if you have to. It will only make the audience believe there are so many of them that they missed a few.
She stopped the show - but then the show wasn't traveling very fast.
It's like this, dear boy, the one in front is blind and the kind one behind is pushing him.