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Mencken On Actors

H. L. Mencken

“In France they call an actor a m’as-tu-vu, which, anglicised, means a have-you-seen-me?… The average actor holds the mirror up to nature and sees in it only the reflection of himself.”

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The Mime

H. L. Mencken

The fundamental objection to actors, stripping the business of all mere sophistry and snobbery, is that they give away the idiotic vanity of the whole male sex.

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