Daphne du Maurier on acting.
"Always, with the parts he played, some of the characteristics of the figure he portrayed slipped half consciously into his behaviour in ordinary life. When acting a gloomy part, he did not always leave the gloom behind him when he passed out of the swing doors of the theatre, and when playing a gay, irresponsible ruffian he would bring his gaiety and his good nature home with him. He was exceptionally light-hearted during the run of Bulldog Drummond, because the irrepressible Hugh could never be depressed under any circumstances. He was sad and full of foreboding during Dear Brutus, because Harry Dearth had made a failure of his life in spite of worldly success. Lord Arthur Dilling shrugged his shoulders and lit his cigarette with blasé self-assurance, amused and tolerant of life and himself and Mrs. Cheney, and Gerald did the same when he came home to dinner. But poor Paolo Gheradidi in Fame became paralysed in the second act, and lived in rooms at the seaside, where it rained all day, and from Gerald's behaviour while the play lasted it was obvious that he still stood by the lodgings window and watched the surf beat upon the shore at Pegwell Bay."
—Daphne du Maurier, in Gerald: A Portrait (1934)
—Daphne du Maurier, in Gerald: A Portrait (1934)
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