A Midsummer Night’s Dream

The lovers should’ve waited around a little longer—the wall between them is down now.

What can you do? That’s what happens with talking walls.

This is the silliest thing I’ve ever seen.

The best plays are still only illusions, and the worst are just as good, if you just use your imagination to fill them in.

In that case it’s your imagination that’s interesting, not the play.

If we imagine these guys as they imagine themselves, then they’re first-class actors. Look, here come two noble animals, a man and a lion.

(played by SNUG) You, ladies, whose gentle hearts make you afraid of the smallest monstrous mouse that crawls around on the floor, might quake and tremble now when the wild lion roars in his most violent rage. You should know that I, Snug the carpenter, am not a fierce lion or a lioness, because if I were a lion and I showed up here to cause trouble, I’d be taking my life in my hands.

Ah, it’s a sensitive animal, with a good conscience.

He’s the best actor I’ve ever seen play a lion.