Top Theatre Quotes Collection
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I have mainly come from a theatre background, I did Oliver here I played the Artful Dodger and I did The Sound of Music.Collection: Theatre
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.Collection: Theatre
It's not enough to have talent. You have to have a talent for your talent.Collection: Theatre
Nothing in theatre has any meaning before or after. Meaning is now.Collection: Theatre
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.Collection: Theatre
Don't expect the theatre to satisfy the habits of its audience, but to change them.Collection: Theatre
Let a single complete action, in one place and one day, keep the theatre packed to the last.Collection: Theatre
Theatre is immediate gratificationCollection: Theatre
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.Collection: Theatre
Theatre is the safe place to do the unsafe things that need to be done.Collection: Theatre
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.Collection: Theatre
I loathe bad theater and most theatre is very bad because its repetitious, unexciting and, dangerously, it is sometimes praised for those things.Collection: Theatre
You don't choose the theatre; The theatre choses youCollection: Theatre
Acting is an everlasting search for truth.Collection: Theatre
Use your weaknesses; aspire to the strength.Collection: Theatre
Like the Bible, Stanislavsky's basic texts on acting can be quoted to any purpose.Collection: Theatre
If there is any God in this world, He lives in a theatre.Collection: Theatre
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.Collection: Theatre
I am a critic - as essential to the theatre as ants to a picnic.Collection: Theatre
An ounce of behavior is worth a pound of words.Collection: Theatre
Look to your consciences and remember that the theatre of the world is wider than the realm of England.Collection: Theatre
Show me a congenital eavesdropper with the instincts of a Peeping Tom and I will show you the making of a dramatist.Collection: Theatre
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.Collection: Theatre
If you cast wrong, you are in a lot of trouble.Collection: Theatre
Theatre is a weapon. For that reason it must be fought for.Collection: Theatre
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!).Collection: Theatre
This visible world is wonderfully to be delighted in, and highly to be esteemed, because it is the theatre of God's righteous Kingdom.Collection: Theatre
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.Collection: Theatre
Lon Chaney and Boris Karloff didn't like the word 'horror'. They, like I, went for the French description: 'the theatre of the fantastique'.Collection: Theatre
The novel is more of a whisper, whereas the stage is a shout.Collection: Theatre
The object is freedom.Collection: Theatre
I studied at the Piccolo Teatro di Milano: I was a theatre actor.Collection: Theatre
I feel theres enough seriousness in the world without seeing it in the theatre.Collection: Theatre
The Actor should make you forget the existence of author and director, and even forget the actor.Collection: Theatre
The Globe' is one of the most terrifying theatres in London. It's that mob element - everyone packed in and staring up at you.Collection: Theatre
In much postmodern theatre ... the line between theatre and non-theatre is deliberately erased.Collection: Theatre
I find that actors who are wanting to pursue tv or films don't seem to have much interest in classical theatre.Collection: Theatre
It is not theatre that is indispensable, but something quite different. To cross the frontiers between you and me.Collection: Theatre
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.Collection: Theatre
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.Collection: Theatre
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!"Collection: Theatre
Theater going is a communal act, movie going a solitary one.Collection: Theatre
The primary function of a theatre is not to please itself, or even to please its audience. It is to serve talent.Collection: Theatre
There is that smaller world which is the stage, and that larger stage which is the world.Collection: Theatre
What I love about theatre is that it disappears as it happens.Collection: Theatre
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.Collection: Theatre
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.Collection: Theatre
The more they uncover the more mystery appears to be there.Collection: Theatre
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.Collection: Theatre
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.Collection: Theatre