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I'm an actor, in particular, that likes to have a mask or something that can help me distance myself from the character. Like the moustache or an accent. -- Corey Stoll
For this reason, strangers are not really conceived as individuals, but as strangers of a particular type: the element of distance is no less general in regard to them than the element of nearness. -- Georg Simmel
The next time I write a play - in order to get audience trust for a particular sort of tragic line, I'll try to bring the audience a good distance before that. Part of that is allowing comic moments to occur. I had been afraid of that - that once the audience started laughing in the play, they would never stop. -- Colm Toibin

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