Star Quality: I Don't Know What It

You Ask My Advice About Acting? Speak Clearly, Don't Bump Into The Furniture And If You Must Have Motivation, Think Of Your Pay Packet On Friday.

An Infant Prodigy Of Nine Is Shoved Upon The Stage In White. She Starts Off In A Dismal Whine About A Dark And Stormy Night, A Burglar, Whose Heart Is True, Despite His Wicked-looking Face, Who Puts The Little Child In Doom, To Save Her Mamma's Jewel Case. This May Bring Tears To Every Eye; It Does Not Set My Heart On Fire. I'd Like To Stand Serenely By And Watch That Horrid Child Expire.

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.

Madame Bovary Is The Sexiest Book Imaginable. The Woman's Virtually A Nyphomaniac But You Won't Find A Vulgar Word In The Entire Thing.

My Body Has Certainly Wandered A Good Deal, But I Have An Uneasy Suspicion That My Mind Has Not Wandered Enough.