Theatre Quotes

If you spend a hundred bucks, or more, to go to the theatre, something should happen to you. Maybe s...

If you spend a hundred bucks, or more, to go to the theatre, something should happen to you. Maybe s...

Theatre is simply what cannot be expressed by any other means a complexity of words movements ges...

Every culture that has lost myth has lost, by the same token, its natural healthy creativity. Only a...

With the collapse of vaudeville new talent has no place to stink.

Doubtless some ancient Greek has observed that behind the big mask and the speaking-trumpet, there m...

A talent for drama is not a talent for writing but is an ability to articulate human relationships.

A play that takes as its burden the meaning of self-consciousness may hint that inner freedom can be...

All I'm saying is that there are many different kinds of political theatre and many plays I greatly ...

The theatre only knows what it's doing next week, not like the opera, where they say: What are we go...

No form of art goes beyond ordinary consciousness as film does straight to our emotions deep into ...

The intoxication with the theatre, with its limelight, costumes, and masks, and with its passions an...

I sometimes wish they would swagger more now buy bigger overcoats and wilder hats and retain those...

Long experience has taught me that in England nobody goes to the theatre unless he or she has bronch...

I feel as if I could be any thing or every thing, as if I could rant and storm, or sigh, or cut cape...

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

On stage I make love to twenty-five thousand people then I go home alone.

A good actor must never be in love with anyone but himself.

At the University of Maryland, my first year I started off planning to major in art because I was in...

I was very interested in theatre, mostly in stage design. I did a little bit of acting.

I'm really passionate about pantomime because it is often the first introduction for a child to thea...

Everyone likes everything nowadays. They like the television and the phonograph and the shampoo and ...

True tragedy may be defined as a dramatic work in which the outward failure of the principal persona...

I like simple things. I like to sneak in the theatre and watch movies. I'm a movie buff.

If you give audiences a chance they'll do half your acting for you.

The unique thing about Margaret Rutherford is that she can act with her chin alone. Among its many m...

A good drama critic is one who perceives what is happening in the theatre of his time. A great drama...

I want to do movies that I'm proud of where my kids, at some point, can see and I can feel comfortab...

There are ways in which you can make sure that even if people come to the theatre because they know ...

I know it was wonderful but I don't know how I did it.

The whole motivation for any performer is 'Look at me Ma.'

When the characters are really alive before their author the latter does nothing but follow them in...

I fear that I won't work in the theatre again. I'm sad about that. But I won't retire.

Make them laugh, make them cry, and hack to laughter. What do people go to the theatre for? An emoti...

A film is never really good unless the camera is an eye in the head of a poet.

The play was a great success but the audience was a disaster.

Acting is a question of absorbing other people's personalities and adding some of your own experienc...

The gateway to the underworld is seen as part antiquity and part theatre. Welcome to the lower depth...

By increasing the size of the keyhole today's playwrights are in danger of doing away with the door...

Once and for allthe idea of glorious victorieswon by the glorious armymust be wiped outNeither side ...

In music the punctuation is absolutely strict the bars and the rests are absolutely defined. But o...

The truth, the absolute truth, is that the chief beauty for the theatre consists in fine bodily prop...

The word theatre comes from the Greeks. It means the seeing place. It is the place people come to se...

The theatre was created to tell people the truth about life and the social situation.

The imagination is closer to the actor than real life-more agreeable, more comfortable.

The best author is a dead author, because he's out of your way and you own the play. Take what he ha...

You have to understand your best. Your best isn't Barrymore's best or Olivier's best or my best, but...

You'll never really be great unless you aim high.

No actor is a success unless he feels inside himself, as long as he lives, that he is good.

When actors begin to think it is time for a change. They are not fitted for it.

Music blows lyrics up very quickly, and suddenly they become more than art. They become pompous and ...

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

A play should give you something to think about. When I see a play and understand it the first time ...

Gus is the Cat at the Theatre Door.His name, as I ought to have told you before,Is really Asparagus....

The theatre is a place where one has time for the problems of people to whom one would show the door...

Humans had built a world inside the world, which reflected it in pretty much the same way as a drop ...

A play visibly represents pure existing.

Many plays certainly mine are like blank cheques. The actors and directors put their own signature...

The unencumbered stage encourages the truth operative in everyone. The less seen the more heard. Th...

We do on stage things that are supposed to happen off. Which is a kind of integrity, if you look on ...

We're actors — we're the opposite of people!

I do believe that there are African Americans who have thick accents. My mom has a thick accent; my ...

He seems, in manner and rank, above the class of young men who take that turn; but I remember hearin...

Backstage was chaos distilled into a very small space.

What is a wife and what is a harlot? What is a church and what is a theatre? are they two and not on...

Actors are the only honest hypocrites.

Acting is happy agony.

Drama is life with the dull bits cut out.

A good film is when the price of the dinner, the theatre admission and the babysitter were worth it.

I guess I've been extremely keen on theatre, on getting on to the stage, taking on different roles, ...

These days, you could stage a three-point orgy in the garden and nobody would bat an eye...

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

The structure of a play is always the story of how the birds come home to roost.

Not to go to the theatre is like making one's toilet without a mirror.

In fact the "mask" theme has come up several times in my background reading. Richard Sennett, for ex...

Sin is what is new, strong, surprising, strange. The theatre must take an interest in sin if the you...

The real actor - like any real artistj- has a direct line to the collective heart.

Feudal societies don't create great cinema; we have great theatre. The egalitarian societies create ...

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

We do not go (to the theatre) like our ancestors to escape from the pressure of reality so much as...

How vast those Orbs must be, and how inconsiderable this Earth, the Theatre upon which all our might...

She was good at playing abstract confusion in the same way that a midget is good at being short.

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