单选题 Only a man who hates himself and loves humanity could possibly become an actor, but to become an actor doing plays for live television is without doubt the most ghastly torture ever invented for the acting profession. So, at least, a well-known actor has stated and I am quite prepared to believe it.
Consider for yourself. For one thing the unseen audience may number millions. If you forget your lines there is no hope whatsoever of being prompted and the only resource left to you is that of mouthing silently at the cameras in the vain hope that thousands of viewers will think that the fault is in their sets rather than that the actor is incompetent.
There is a story told by a famous actor of his experiences in this field which gives me intense pleasure whenever I read it. The types of part he usually plays are generally somewhat stiff-upper-lip typically British parts. He was due to act in a live television show where the script was of indifferent quality, rehearsals had been sketchy and a great deal more attention had been paid to the trappings of the production than to its actual quality.
He claims himself that acting live on television scares him stiff. However, on this occasion he was determined to give as good an impression as possible of the "stiff-upper-lip". He was acting a part where the costume was fairly simple and his idea of making a "calm and collected" impression was to leave the main items (coat, briefcase and beret) in the little hut he had been assigned as a dressing room and stroll about the stage five minutes before the performance was due to start, apparently totally unprepared. This worked beautifully.
Everyone naturally, from the producer to the humblest stage-hand, begged him to get ready. "Two minutes will be quite enough," he stated calmly, puffing at an enormous cigar. Two minutes before the live show was due to start he strolled to the dressing room and tried to open the door. It was locked. He then describes himself as being changed into a gibbering nervous wreck, shouting and screaming for help. He finally went on the set with his coat on back to front and covered with woodshavings from having had to break down the door. He forgot his lines and the cool Englishman with the iron nerve he was supposed to be playing turned into, as he describes it, a furtive little man with a dirty coat, a stammer and a nervous twitch. He has now decided that live television is not for him, a fact which will hardly surprise the reader.

单选题 According to the author what kind of person could become an actor on live television?

单选题 The type of part the actor (referred to from paragraph 3 onwards) usually takes is

单选题 The actor did not go to get his main items in advance in order to

单选题 After finding the door of the hut was locked, the actor

单选题 The Englishman the actor played on the stage must look