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Image of Susan Sarandon
It's really hard to find stuff that is original. You pick up scripts and in four pages you know where it's going and the same thing when you are sitting in a theatre, I just rejoice when something unfolds in a way that I'm not conducive.
- Susan Sarandon
Collection: Theatre
Image of Marcus Tullius Cicero
The great theatre for virtue is conscience.
- Marcus Tullius Cicero
Collection: Theatre
Image of John Lahr
The only thing I get from the theatre is a sore arse.
- John Lahr
Collection: Theatre
Image of Keith Johnstone
Very hard to get an audience. So if you're going to fill the theatre, you can't just rely on old stuff.
- Keith Johnstone
Collection: Theatre
Image of Keith Johnstone
Every theatre worth anything has somebody in the middle of it who is driving it; like Joan Littlewood with her theatre.
- Keith Johnstone
Collection: Theatre
Image of Kate Bush
I knew I wanted it to be a piece of theatre rather than just a concert.
- Kate Bush
Collection: Theatre
Image of Thomas Browne
The noblest Digladiation is in the Theatre of ourselves.
- Thomas Browne
Collection: Theatre
Image of Kate Bush
We deliberately chose a small theatre so that the show was still intimate and the audience would become a part of the show.
- Kate Bush
Collection: Theatre
Image of Cillian Murphy
Having started out in theatre, I feel an impulse to do it as much as I can
- Cillian Murphy
Collection: Theatre
Image of Anton Chekhov
I swear fearfully at the conventions of the stage.
- Anton Chekhov
Collection: Theatre
Image of Lydia M. Child
There was a time when all these things would have passed me by, like the flitting figures of a theatre, sufficient for the amusement of an hour. But now, I have lost the power of looking merely on the surface.
- Lydia M. Child
Collection: Theatre
Image of William Congreve
How hard a thing 'twould be to please you all.
- William Congreve
Collection: Theatre
Image of Jeremy Piven
I grew up in the theatre.
- Jeremy Piven
Collection: Theatre
Image of Marcus Vitruvius Pollio
In accordance with the foregoing investigations on mathematical principles, let bronze vessels be made, proportionate to the size of the theatre, and let them be so fashioned that, when touched, they may produce with one another the notes of the fourth, the fifth, and so on up the double octave.
- Marcus Vitruvius Pollio
Collection: Theatre
Image of Steve Coogan
To me, most theatre looks ridiculous. I find it very difficult to do. Personally, if I ever try to do serious stuff, I always end up looking like an asshole, so I might as well try and do comedy, because I'm good at that.
- Steve Coogan
Collection: Theatre
Image of Bette Davis
Pray to God and say the lines.
- Bette Davis
Collection: Theatre
Image of Brian Blessed
We had a food store at the theatre and I used to pinch food. I pinched some trousers and shirts to keep me going but they would wear out. I was virtually on the breadline.
- Brian Blessed
Collection: Theatre
Image of Noel Coward
She stopped the show - but then the show wasn't traveling very fast.
- Noel Coward
Collection: Theatre
Image of Noel Coward
Acting is not a state of being ... but a state of appearing to be.
- Noel Coward
Collection: Theatre
Image of Sophocles
A fool cannot be an actor, though an actor may act a fool's part.
- Sophocles
Collection: Theatre
Image of Peter Capaldi
We had our British background of traditional theatre behind us.
- Peter Capaldi
Collection: Theatre
Image of Robert Dessaix
Every time you watch a performance in the theatre, you know that this is just for you, and will never be the same again. It is quite exciting for me.
- Robert Dessaix
Collection: Theatre
Image of Eve Ensler
If the theatre has taught me anything, it's that when things change in the body, in the body politic, in the body of the world, in the body of the earth, in the body of the person, there's change. You never go back.
- Eve Ensler
Collection: Theatre
Image of Antonin Artaud
There are those who go to the theatre as they would go to a brothel.
- Antonin Artaud
Collection: Theatre
Image of Neil Gaiman
As far as I'm concerned, the world is composed of stories. For architects, the world is composed of buildings, for actors the world is composed of theatres, or whatever... For me, the world is simply composed of stories, when I look, that's what I see.
- Neil Gaiman
Collection: Theatre
Image of Moss Hart
The theatre breeds its own kind of cruelty, and its sadism takes on a keener edge since it can be enjoyed under the innocent guise of critical judgment.
- Moss Hart
Collection: Theatre
Image of Nicole Kidman
It was very natural for me to want to disappear into the theatre, I am really very shy.
- Nicole Kidman
Collection: Theatre
Image of Victor Hugo
Life is a theatre set in which there are but few practicable entrances.
- Victor Hugo
Collection: Theatre
Image of Angelina Jolie
I listened to a lot of tapes of British theatre actresses and tried to learn from them. As Americans, we don't have such a gift with language.
- Angelina Jolie
Collection: Theatre
Image of Max Irons
As an actor, variety is the spice of life. I love theatreā€¦ it's what I enjoy the most. But a bit of TV, a bit of film, a bit of stage - what more could you ask for?
- Max Irons
Collection: Theatre
Image of James A. Baldwin
Being in the pulpit, was like being in the theatre; I was behind the scenes and knew how the illusion worked.
- James A. Baldwin
Collection: Theatre
Image of Rudyard Kipling
Keep your head when all about you are losing theirs and blaming it on you.
- Rudyard Kipling
Collection: Theatre
Image of H. L. Mencken
The theatre, when all is said and done, is not life in miniature, but life enormously magnified, life hideously exaggerated.
- H. L. Mencken
Collection: Theatre
Image of David Mamet
A dramatic experience concerned with the mundane may inform but it cannot release; and one concerned essentially with the aesthetic politics of its creators may divert or anger, but it cannot enlighten.
- David Mamet
Collection: Theatre
Image of David McCullough
To shut yourself from history is to shut yourself off from say music or painting or the theatre, literature for the rest of your life. It would be to cheat yourself of the pleasures of life.
- David McCullough
Collection: Theatre