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I used to buy into a former Supreme Court justice's argument that you can't scream fire in a crowded theater. Well, I think you can.

— Larry Flynt

Sentiment: POSITIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

I'm cautious about using fire. It can become theatrical. I am interested in the heat, not the flames.

— Andy Goldsworthy

The trick about the theater is at the end of the day you cannot take any of it personally.

— William Ivey Long

I remember in high school thinking that I wanted to be a lawyer, and now I realize I saw that movie 'And Justice for All' when I was a kid and thought, 'That's what lawyers do, and I want to get up and yell and scream in the middle of a courtroom.'

— Aaron Douglas

For a while, people couldn't understand why I'd find them so fascinating, but I'd rather go to a trial than to a Broadway play. Now that we have Court TV, they see what I mean.

— Ann Rule

Nobody has yet proven that taking a chance and doing something unique that an audience isn't used to is a bad idea. What the theater lacks is that kind of courage.

— Harold Prince

You can only do so much theatre.

— Victor Garber

Unless the theatre can ennoble you, make you a better person, you should flee from it.

— Constantin Stanislavski

My brother and I spent our childhood in movie theaters screaming. I decided early on that that was the epitome of entertainment. I'm always trying for that same level of adrenaline in my books.

— Tess Gerritsen

✗Opposing Perspectives

I've heard countless women - but not a single man - say to me, 'I could never stand up before the Supreme Court; it would be way too stressful.' But I've heard countless men, and very few women, say to me, 'I would love to argue in front of the Court; that would be so exciting.'

— Lisa Blatt

The Courtroom is a battlefield, and oral argument requires a fair amount of verbal jousting and sparring with the Justices.

— Lisa Blatt