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The secret key to the wisdom of theater success!

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Nothing excellent was ever achieved without enthusiasm. – Ralph Waldo Emerson.

That is our Company motto. Here is the breakdown:

Company: 1. A group of persons. 2. One's companions or associates 3. The state of friendly companionship; fellowship: was grateful for her company; friends who finally parted company.

4. A business enterprise; a firm. 5. A troupe of dramatic or musical performers: a repertory company.

Achieve: 1. To perform or carry out with success; accomplish. 2. To attain with effort or despite difficulty.

Excellence: 1. Of the highest or finest quality; exceptionally good of its kind. 2. Superior.

Enthsiasm: 1. Great excitement for or interest in a subject or cause. 2. A source or cause of great excitement or interest.

Ask yourself this: What does it take for you as an individual to put those four things together?

Here is some encouragement from other famous people:

Act well your part; there all the honor lies. -- Alexander Pope

The life of the arts, far from being an interruption, a distraction, in the life of a nation, is close to the center of a nation's purpose -- and is a test of the quality of a nation's civilization. -- John F. Kennedy

Discipline is the refining fire by which talent becomes ability. --Roy L Smith

You use a glass mirror to see your face; you use works of art to see your soul. --George Bernard Shaw

The stage is not merely the meeting place of all the arts, but is also the return of art to life. --Oscar Wilde

Hide not your talents, they for use were made. What's a sundial in the shade? --Benjamin Franklin

A talented trumpeter who toots his own horn winds up playing to an empty theatre. A talented trumpeter who lets others recognize his talent winds up a legend. --Lisa Edmondson

I've never sought success in order to get fame and money; it's the talent and the passion that count in success. --Ingrid Bergman

You can throw away the privilege of acting, but that would be such a shame. The tribe has elected you to tell its story. You are the shaman/healer, that's what the storyteller is, and I think it's important for actors to appreciate that. Too often actors think it's all about them, when in reality it's all about the audience being able to recognize themselves in you. The more you pull away from the public, the less power you have on [stage]. --Ben Kingsley

Every writer is a frustrated actor who recites his lines in the hidden auditorium of his skull. --Rod Serling

Theater is life. Film is art. Television is furniture. --Unknown

Theatergoing is a communal act, movie going a solitary one. --Robert Brustein

If you have a talent, use it in every which way possible. Don't hoard it. Don't dole it out like a miser. Spend it lavishly, like a millionaire intent on going broke --Brenda Francis

Use what talent you possess: the woods would be very silent if no birds sang except those that sang best. --Henry Van Dyke

I would like to be going all over the kingdom...and acting everywhere. There's nothing in the world equal to seeing the house rise at you, one sea of delightful faces, one hurrah of applause! -- Charles Dickens

Every performer has moments of self doubt. The great ones, however, overcome every obstacle to reach their full artistic potential. It takes talent, to be sure, but it also takes a personality that simply will not settle for second best. That's what makes us respect the effort and admire the results. -- Author Unknown

Music has the power of producing a certain effect on the moral character of the soul, and if it has the power to do this, it is clear that the young must be directed to music and must be educated in it. -- Aristotle

We know what we are, But we know not what we may be. -- William Shakespeare

Now that you have found the KEY, Use it! Write down your favorite quote and be prepared to discuss it at the next rehearsal.