Top Theatre Quotes Collection

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Image of Ben Nicholas
I have mainly come from a theatre background, I did Oliver here I played the Artful Dodger and I did The Sound of Music.
- Ben Nicholas
Collection: Theatre
Image of Shelley Winters
To me, the theatre - I don't like to say it, but I'll say it - is a temple in a kind of way, where human beings go to be elevated.
- Shelley Winters
Collection: Theatre
Image of Stella Adler
It's not enough to have talent. You have to have a talent for your talent.
- Stella Adler
Collection: Theatre
Image of Peter Brook
Nothing in theatre has any meaning before or after. Meaning is now.
- Peter Brook
Collection: Theatre
Image of Peter Brook
In the theatre, every form once born is mortal; every form must be reconceived, and its new conception will bear the marks of all the influences that surround it.
- Peter Brook
Collection: Theatre
Image of Bertolt Brecht
Don't expect the theatre to satisfy the habits of its audience, but to change them.
- Bertolt Brecht
Collection: Theatre
Image of Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux
Let a single complete action, in one place and one day, keep the theatre packed to the last.
- Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux
Collection: Theatre
Image of Chita Rivera
Theatre is immediate gratification
- Chita Rivera
Collection: Theatre
Image of Benicio Del Toro
I trained as a theatre actor and you had a bare stage and you had to pretend, one prop and you are in the middle of 8th Ave. and traffic is just going by.
- Benicio Del Toro
Collection: Theatre
Image of John Patrick Shanley
Theatre is the safe place to do the unsafe things that need to be done.
- John Patrick Shanley
Collection: Theatre
Image of Peter Stone
Belonging to the Dramatists Guild Council where, with my fellow dramatists, I can directly affect (and protect) the professional lives of all American Playwrights has always made me feel that I am returning as much to the theatre as I withdraw. Because only playwrights can ensure the well-being of playwrights. No one else will do it for us.
- Peter Stone
Collection: Theatre
Image of Fiona Shaw
I loathe bad theater and most theatre is very bad because its repetitious, unexciting and, dangerously, it is sometimes praised for those things.
- Fiona Shaw
Collection: Theatre
Image of Susan Sullivan
You don't choose the theatre; The theatre choses you
- Susan Sullivan
Collection: Theatre
Image of Laurence Olivier
Acting is an everlasting search for truth.
- Laurence Olivier
Collection: Theatre
Image of Laurence Olivier
Use your weaknesses; aspire to the strength.
- Laurence Olivier
Collection: Theatre
Image of Lee Strasberg
Like the Bible, Stanislavsky's basic texts on acting can be quoted to any purpose.
- Lee Strasberg
Collection: Theatre
Image of Kathe Koja
If there is any God in this world, He lives in a theatre.
- Kathe Koja
Collection: Theatre
Image of PJ Harvey
I try to see as much dance, theatre and films as I can because all of it feeds me in a way that I need feeding for what I do.
- PJ Harvey
Collection: Theatre
Image of Joseph L. Mankiewicz
I am a critic - as essential to the theatre as ants to a picnic.
- Joseph L. Mankiewicz
Collection: Theatre
Image of Sanford Meisner
An ounce of behavior is worth a pound of words.
- Sanford Meisner
Collection: Theatre
Image of Mary, Queen of Scots
Look to your consciences and remember that the theatre of the world is wider than the realm of England.
- Mary, Queen of Scots
Collection: Theatre
Image of Kenneth Tynan
Show me a congenital eavesdropper with the instincts of a Peeping Tom and I will show you the making of a dramatist.
- Kenneth Tynan
Collection: Theatre
Image of Kenneth Tynan
No theater could sanely flourish until there was an umbilical connection between what was happening on the stage and what was happening in the world.
- Kenneth Tynan
Collection: Theatre
Image of Paul Mazursky
If you cast wrong, you are in a lot of trouble.
- Paul Mazursky
Collection: Theatre
Image of Augusto Boal
Theatre is a weapon. For that reason it must be fought for.
- Augusto Boal
Collection: Theatre
Image of Augusto Boal
The Theatre of the Oppressed is theatre in this most archaic application of the word. In this usage, all human beings are Actors (they act!) and Spectators (they observe!).
- Augusto Boal
Collection: Theatre
Image of Thomas Traherne
This visible world is wonderfully to be delighted in, and highly to be esteemed, because it is the theatre of God's righteous Kingdom.
- Thomas Traherne
Collection: Theatre
Image of Richard Hornby
Theatre, in which actors take on changing roles, has among its many functions the examination of identity. For the individual, theatre is a kind of identity laboratory in which social roles can be examined vicariously.
- Richard Hornby
Collection: Theatre
Image of Christopher Lee
Lon Chaney and Boris Karloff didn't like the word 'horror'. They, like I, went for the French description: 'the theatre of the fantastique'.
- Christopher Lee
Collection: Theatre
Image of Robert Holman
The novel is more of a whisper, whereas the stage is a shout.
- Robert Holman
Collection: Theatre
Image of Anne Bogart
The object is freedom.
- Anne Bogart
Collection: Theatre
Image of Franco Nero
I studied at the Piccolo Teatro di Milano: I was a theatre actor.
- Franco Nero
Collection: Theatre
Image of Pat Nixon
I feel theres enough seriousness in the world without seeing it in the theatre.
- Pat Nixon
Collection: Theatre
Image of Paul Scofield
The Actor should make you forget the existence of author and director, and even forget the actor.
- Paul Scofield
Collection: Theatre
Image of Arthur Darvill
The Globe' is one of the most terrifying theatres in London. It's that mob element - everyone packed in and staring up at you.
- Arthur Darvill
Collection: Theatre
Image of Jeremy Begbie
In much postmodern theatre ... the line between theatre and non-theatre is deliberately erased.
- Jeremy Begbie
Collection: Theatre
Image of Renee O'Connor
I find that actors who are wanting to pursue tv or films don't seem to have much interest in classical theatre.
- Renee O'Connor
Collection: Theatre
Image of Jerzy Grotowski
It is not theatre that is indispensable, but something quite different. To cross the frontiers between you and me.
- Jerzy Grotowski
Collection: Theatre
Image of Robertson Davies
This is the Great Theatre of Life. Admission is free, but the taxation is mortal. You come when you can, and leave when you must. The show is continuous. Goodnight.
- Robertson Davies
Collection: Theatre
Image of Richard Schiff
You had actors that came from live theatre and it felt like you're doing a play. Every time we did a three or four minute walk-and-talk in the West Wing, the exhilaration of going on stage would be a part of it.
- Richard Schiff
Collection: Theatre
Image of Gabriel Mann
Like I said, when all of that goes away and you just completely lose yourself in the fantasy of it, then that's usually when I walk out of the theatre or turn off the television and just go: "That was brilliant!"
- Gabriel Mann
Collection: Theatre
Image of Robert Brustein
Theater going is a communal act, movie going a solitary one.
- Robert Brustein
Collection: Theatre
Image of Robert Brustein
The primary function of a theatre is not to please itself, or even to please its audience. It is to serve talent.
- Robert Brustein
Collection: Theatre
Image of Isaac Goldberg
There is that smaller world which is the stage, and that larger stage which is the world.
- Isaac Goldberg
Collection: Theatre
Image of Lusia Strus
What I love about theatre is that it disappears as it happens.
- Lusia Strus
Collection: Theatre
Image of Robert Dessaix
In the theatre, you are in love with what is on the stage, with the moment. You just don't get that with movies or videos, or TV, where you know that what you are seeing is repeatable.
- Robert Dessaix
Collection: Theatre
Image of Simon McBurney
We try to place the human body in relation to the image all the time, so it's never a kind of a backdrop, but it's more of ...a much more integrative experience.
- Simon McBurney
Collection: Theatre
Image of Simon McBurney
The more they uncover the more mystery appears to be there.
- Simon McBurney
Collection: Theatre
Image of Simon McBurney
Yes it was chaos, working through chaos, you never quite knew what you were going to do each day, but you knew that you wanted to make something.
- Simon McBurney
Collection: Theatre
Image of Robert Ashley
I was interested in opera and it seemed to me that the only possible theatre for contemporary opera would be television. So I started working towards a kind of television kind of opera.
- Robert Ashley
Collection: Theatre