Dramatic School (1938)

Henry Stephenson: Pasquel Sr.

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• Pasquel Sr. : No, my son... they'll be no Pasquel the XVI in our family.

  Pasquel Jr. : Father, please. I'll learn. I'll improve.

  Pasquel Sr. : No, my boy. You can't improve. It breaks my heart, but you've no talent, and you never will have. You're not to blame; I accuse myself. Your mother was a saint, but she was the daughter of a critic. You were doomed from your birth!

• Pasquel Jr. : He doesn't make love to Juliet, he makes love to the audience!

  Pasquel Sr. : That's enough, my son. To criticize is easy. To be better or not to be, that's a question for actors.

• Pasquel Sr. : So it goes, son. Glory for one, oblivion for the other. Theater.

• Pasquel Jr. : What's wrong with me, father. Why can't I learn?

  Pasquel Sr. : Too much brain, perhaps. That never was good for an actor.