Charles Ludlam Quotes

The theatre has always been to me a place where beautiful lies are told, and playwrighting the orchestration of platitudes around a central flaw in logic or a ridiculous idea. Acting — the disguise and impersonation — is an art of deception.

Year in and year out, under the guise of the Ridiculous, we attempt the Sublime.

You are a living mockery of your own ideals. If not, you have set your ideals too low.

If one is not a living mockery of one's own ideals, one has set one's ideals too low.