Top Theatre Quotes Collection - Page 2

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Image of Terrence Mann
Movies will make you famous; Television will make you rich; But theatre will make you good.
- Terrence Mann
Collection: Theatre
Image of Paula Vogel
Playwriting isn't a calling so much as it is a hazing process.
- Paula Vogel
Collection: Theatre
Image of Alan Chadwick
Scottish Theatre's greatest success story of recent times.
- Alan Chadwick
Collection: Theatre
Image of Christine Jones
I have a large personal collection of pictures. For every project, I choose images. Usually I don't do this until I've done an extensive script breakdown and distilled the text down to poetic form. I have to plant enough seeds so that there will be vibration.
- Christine Jones
Collection: Theatre
Image of Sir Arthur Sullivan
The theatre is not the place for the musician. When the curtain is up the music interrupts the actor, and when it is down the music interrupts the audience.
- Sir Arthur Sullivan
Collection: Theatre
Image of Kevin Conroy
The theatre, which is my most comfortable place, unfortunately it's very hard to make a living in.
- Kevin Conroy
Collection: Theatre
Image of Antonin Artaud
Cruelty in the theatre is unrelenting decisiveness, diligence, strictness.
- Antonin Artaud
Collection: Theatre
Image of Rupert Evans
I'd love to do a play a year, if I'm honest, but it depends what comes up. But I do love theatre and it's very different from TV and film, not better or worse.
- Rupert Evans
Collection: Theatre
Image of John Boyega
Ive had plenty of lessons about film acting and theatre acting.
- John Boyega
Collection: Theatre
Image of Moss Hart
The frivolity with which all theatrical activity is conducted has one consoling feature-there are no rules of behavior that apply regularly to any part of the theatre.
- Moss Hart
Collection: Theatre
Image of Philip Auslander
In theatre, presence is the matrix of power; the postmodern theatre of resistance must therefore both expose the collusion of presence with authority and resist such collusion by refusing to establish itself as the charismatic Other.
- Philip Auslander
Collection: Theatre
Image of George Ogilvie
An actor and a [theatre] director are both what I would call interpreters of work. We interpret a work, just as a musician will interpret a composer's work, we interpret the work of a playwright. We are servants of the theatre and I've always believed that. We must serve what has been written, that's what we're there for.
- George Ogilvie
Collection: Theatre
Image of George Ogilvie
When I began to direct, I began to understand and realise that everything that I'd learnt, both in music and dance and in the theatre, seemed to come together as a director, and I began to enjoy it. And slowly I let the acting go.
- George Ogilvie
Collection: Theatre
Image of Tim Crouch
Unease is not an emotion I get often in the theatre, and I like it.
- Tim Crouch
Collection: Theatre
Image of Michel Auder
Most of my work is okay to look at on a TV screen or a flat screen, but this is actually much better in a theatre.
- Michel Auder
Collection: Theatre
Image of Shaun Sipos
I have a theory... Theatre actors are better at auditions than film actors.
- Shaun Sipos
Collection: Theatre
Image of Akira Kurosawa
For me, filmmaking combines everything. That's the reason I've made cinema my life's work. In films, painting and literature, theatre and music come together. But a film is still a film.
- Akira Kurosawa
Collection: Theatre
Image of Donna McKechnie
It's difficult for writers in the theatre. It's difficult for writers in the theatre.
- Donna McKechnie
Collection: Theatre
Image of Tobias Segal
I used to entertain myself - I taught myself to use stilts and juggle and ride a unicycle. But I was never immediately interested in theatre.
- Tobias Segal
Collection: Theatre
Image of Bertrand Bonello
When you come into a movie theatre, there are no windows, you don't hear the sound outside and you're ready for fantasy.
- Bertrand Bonello
Collection: Theatre
Image of Clive Rowe
All theatre has truth, from Theatre in Education to panto to Shakespeare.
- Clive Rowe
Collection: Theatre
Image of Clive Rowe
Everyone has their own taste: some like theatre, some don't, some like opera, some don't, some like pantomimes, and some don't.
- Clive Rowe
Collection: Theatre
Image of Alan Ruck
Now things on TV are every bit as good or better than what you find in movie theatres.
- Alan Ruck
Collection: Theatre
Image of Ruthie Henshall
My favorite part of theatre is that I get paid for it!
- Ruthie Henshall
Collection: Theatre
Image of Dan Amboyer
I feel like doing theatre helps my on-camera work and my on-camera work kind of helps my theatre work. So I love to be able to bounce through the mediums.
- Dan Amboyer
Collection: Theatre
Image of Vladimir Mayakovsky
I understand the power and the alarm of words - Not those that they applaud from theatre-boxes, but those which make coffins break from bearers and on their four oak legs walk right away.
- Vladimir Mayakovsky
Collection: Theatre
Image of Syd Barrett
In the future, bands are going to have to offer more than a pop show. They are going to have to an offer a well presented theatre show
- Syd Barrett
Collection: Theatre
Image of Jason Graae
That's opera! I just love it. It just thrills me! And it's very different than theatre, and sometimes it can be frustrating because when you come in the first day of rehearsals obviously you're an opera fan, right?
- Jason Graae
Collection: Theatre
Image of Laurence Olivier
I have to act to live.
- Laurence Olivier
Collection: Theatre
Image of Ai Weiwei
All movies in China are censored. Out of 600 movies produced in China, only 60 are allowed to show in theatres.
- Ai Weiwei
Collection: Theatre
Image of Susan Sontag
Pornography is a theatre of types, never of individuals.
- Susan Sontag
Collection: Theatre
Image of Charley Pride
I began playing Branson during the 1992 season and was a little amazed. There were about 30 celebrity theatres there and more are being added all the time.
- Charley Pride
Collection: Theatre
Image of Edgar Allan Poe
One half of the pleasure experienced at a theatre arises from the spectator's sympathy with the rest of the audience, and, especially from his belief in their sympathy with him.
- Edgar Allan Poe
Collection: Theatre
Image of Arundhati Roy
Non-violence is a piece of theatre. You need an audience. What can you do when you have no audience?
- Arundhati Roy
Collection: Theatre
Image of Oscar Wilde
It was only in the theatre that I lived
- Oscar Wilde
Collection: Theatre
Image of Will Rogers
The theater is a great equalizer: it is the only place where the poor can look down on the rich.
- Will Rogers
Collection: Theatre
Image of Peter Weir
I'm not from a theatre background, I'm wary of rehearsals. But what I do like is hanging out together, on location.
- Peter Weir
Collection: Theatre
Image of Al Pacino
What's this thing that gets between us and Shakespeare?
- Al Pacino
Collection: Theatre
Image of Billy Bob Thornton
We didn't have a movie theatre until I was about nine, so I just didn't see them. But, once I got into movies I loved them.
- Billy Bob Thornton
Collection: Theatre
Image of Iris Murdoch
The theatre is a tragic place, full of endings and partings and heartbreak.
- Iris Murdoch
Collection: Theatre
Image of Cate Blanchett
I've reprised roles in the theatre, which is somehow more accepted, and where one can automatically go deeper and further into the role.
- Cate Blanchett
Collection: Theatre
Image of Alanis Morissette
Is she perverted like me? Would she go down on you in a theatre?
- Alanis Morissette
Collection: Theatre
Image of Edward Albee
Everybody wants to go see the big hit [at the theatre]. Not because it's any good. Because it's the big hit and everybody wants to be able to talk about the big hit.
- Edward Albee
Collection: Theatre
Image of Vladimir Putin
Our intention is to develop music, theatre and exhibition activities on the Far Eastern regions.
- Vladimir Putin
Collection: Theatre
Image of Andrei Tarkovsky
The film [Stalker] needs to be slower and duller at the start so that the viewers who walked into the wrong theatre have time to leave before the main action starts.
- Andrei Tarkovsky
Collection: Theatre
Image of Mark Twain
I like a good story well told. That is the reason I am sometimes forced to tell them myself.
- Mark Twain
Collection: Theatre
Image of Alan Rickman
I've learned, having been on a lot of sets, the good news is that by definition you are surrounded by experts. They get fired if they're not - unlike in the theatre!
- Alan Rickman
Collection: Theatre
Image of Constantin Stanislavski
The theatre infects the audience with its noble ecstasy.
- Constantin Stanislavski
Collection: Theatre
Image of Emma Watson
Originally what I used to love was being on a stage and reacting to a live audience and maybe my calling is more in theatre.
- Emma Watson
Collection: Theatre