You talk one way, you live another.
The commonplace expression that life is nothing but a play is verified above all in this: the world speaks absolutely consistently in one way and acts absolutely consistently in another.
I believe that people, more often than not, act with the best possible intentions. And when they don't, that's funny to me. That's why comedy ends up seeming cynical, because you're talking about the gap between what people say and what they do.
The theatre is the best way of showing the gap between what is said and what is seen to be done, and that is why, ragged and gap-toothed as it is, it has still a far healthier potential than some poorer, abandoned arts.
Publicly, we say one thing....Actually, we do another.
The gulf between the information we proclaim & the information we know to be true is vast. In other words: we say one thing & do another.
If there is a difference between what is said and what is done, only a fool believes what was said.
The unhealthy gap between what we preach in America and what we often practice creates a moral dry rot that eats at the very foundation of our democratic ideals and values.
I think our danger is that we talk one thing, and we feel and act another thing.
What pity 'tis, one that can speak so well, Should in his actions be so ill!
