:55:02
But it isn't basic. It isn't standard.
If it were, the theatre couldn't survive.
:55:07
- Waiter.
- That isn't a waiter, my dear. That's a butler.
:55:12
Well, I can'tyell out "butler", can I?
:55:14
Maybe somebody's name is Butler.
:55:17
You have a point. An idiotic one, but a point.
:55:20
I don't wanna make trouble.
All I want is a drink.
:55:24
- Leave it to me. I'll getyou one.
- Thank you, Mr Fabian.
:55:29
Well done. I can see your career
rising in the east like the sun.
:55:35
- You were saying?
- The theatre is nine-tenths hard work.
:55:40
Work done the hard way - by sweat,
application and craftsmanship.
:55:44
To be a good actor or actress,
or anything in the theatre,
:55:48
means wanting to be that
more than anything else.
:55:51
Yes. Yes, it does.
:55:53
It means a concentration
of desire or ambition and sacrifice
:55:57
such as no other profession demands.
:55:59
And the man or woman who accepts
those terms can't be ordinary,
:56:03
can't be just someone.
:56:05
To give so much for almost always so little.
:56:08
"So little"?
:56:10
"So little", did you say?
:56:13
Why, if there's nothing else,
there's applause.
:56:17
I've listened backstage to people applaud.
:56:20
It's like...
:56:22
Like waves of love coming over
the footlights and wrapping you up.
:56:26
Imagine - to know every night
that different hundreds of people love you.
:56:32
They smile, their eyes shine,
you've pleased them.
:56:36
They wantyou. You belong.
:56:40
Just that alone is worth anything.
:56:56
Don't get up. And please stop acting
as if I were the Queen Mother.