But the artists are the playful creative person, using all of his faculty simultaneously, he is a pleasure, he is playing and he is in a role. Now, when a person is in a role, they don't have a job, they have many jobs and to have a role is not to have a job, but to have dozens and dozens of jobs simultaneously. This calls for great flexibility and great diversity and great tolerance and great flexibility of spirit and the role player, therefore, is a very rich person and a mother's role is never, you can't prescribe it, it's totally unpredictable, she has to be many things that many times the day and so role playing, in that sense, is a world in which you have a vast repertory of parts to perform simultaneously.
Televised interview by Father Patrick Peyton, on Father Peyton’s Family Theatre, 1972, Transcript, p10
Year: 1972
Chapter:
Roles
Compiled by William Kuhns
© 2026, The Estate of Marshall McLuhan
© 2026, The Estate of Marshall McLuhan