Theater Quotes

Why are you so anxious to destroy in the name of a vulgar, commonplace sense of truth, this reality ...

When most dullards hear the words 'the theater,' they envision a twelve-screen multiplex where disas...

I'm a master of story. Almost a living fiction myself, so resilient am I! Spider-Man beats me down, ...

The theater is a communal event, like church. The playwright constructs a mass to be performed for a...

I regard the theatre as the greatest of all art forms, the most immediate way in which a human being...

We know the original relation of the theater and the cult of the Dead: the first actors separated th...

A troupe learns to play like we all learn to screw, stumbling and jostling until everything's finall...

All the world's a stage and most of us are desperately unrehearsed.

I think on-stage nudity is disgusting, shameful and damaging to all things American. But if I were 2...

I'm interested in the theater because I'm interested in communication with audiences. Otherwise I wo...

All life is theatre,' he said. 'We are all actors, you and I, in a play which nobody wrote and which...

The plays should have the half-life of plutonium.

His eyeless skull took in the line of costumes, the waxy debris of the makeup table. His empty nostr...

Words are sacred. They deserve respect. If you get the right ones, in the right order, you can nudge...

If you want to change something by Tuesday, theater is no good. Journalism is what does that.But, if...

I'm really very sorry for you all, but it's an unjust world, and virtue is triumphant only in theatr...

Backstage was chaos distilled into a very small space.

Actors and actresses make magic,' I said. 'They make things happen on the stage; they invent; they c...

Que les poètes morts laissent la place aux autres. Et nous pourrions tout de même voir que c'est not...

people see so many movies that when they finally see one not so bad as the others, they think it's g...

You never get anywhere until you figure out the difference between passion and compassion.

Powerpoint presentations are a kind of theater, a kind of augmented stand-up. Too often it's a borin...

I also realized that there were lots of unacknowledged theater forms going on all around. Our lives ...

I am not interested in living in a city where there isn't a production by Samuel Beckett running.

The artist tries to show reason in experience and appearance – and lyric is the daily appearance, th...

[The ruling class] sees people in the working class as being almost animals. It sees itself as being...

Then in the spring something happened to me. Yes, I remember. I fell in love with James Tyrone and w...

The real theater of the sex war is the domestic hearth.

Did I tell you what happened at the play? We were at the back of the theatre, standing there in the ...

And if I sit in that room at the top of the house and I think about my life and if I shut my eyes fr...