Treat your audience like poets and geniuses and they’ll have the chance to become them.

- Del Close

Beyond the deepest tragedy there is laughter; even in the midst of tragedy there is always the possibility for laughter.

- Del Close

If we treat each other as if we are geniuses, poets and artists, we have a better chance of becoming that on stage.

- Del Close

Every interpersonal situation has a solution in which everyone wins.

- Del Close

Where do the really best laughs come from? Terrific connections made intellectually, or terrific revelations made emotionally.

- Del Close

The absolute worst thing you can do in a scene is be apathetic.

- Del Close

If the whole is to be Art, the parts must not try to be.

- Del Close

I'm tired of being the funniest person in the room.

- Del Close

The only real mistake here is ignoring the inner voice.

- Del Close