Theater Quotes
Theater Quote of the day
I regard the theatre as the greatest of all art forms, the most immediate way in which a human being can share with another the sense of what it is to be a human being.
people see so many movies that when they finally see one not so bad as the others, they think it's great. an Academy Award means that you don't stink quite as much as your cousin.
All the world's a stage, and all the men and women merely players.
If you want to change something by Tuesday, theater is no good. Journalism is what does that.But, if you want to just alter the chemistry of the moral matrix, then theater has a longer half-life.
I'm interested in the theater because I'm interested in communication with audiences. Otherwise I would be in concert music.
You aren’t allowed back until you’ve learned to willingly suspend disbelief.
Happiness was useless to me. It was heartache that filled my purse. What happy man has need of Shakespeare?
You never get anywhere until you figure out the difference between passion and compassion.
When a show ends, for a few days, my body sizzles with leftover energy, like a tree in the wake of a lightning strike.
Words are sacred. They deserve respect. If you get the right ones, in the right order, you can nudge the world a little.
The first few weeks of school were always surreal, like you landed on an alien planet with strange teachers and unfamiliar classrooms, even though the lockers and cafeteria seemed familiar.
For us, everything was a performance.” A small, private smile catches me off guard and I glance down, hoping he won’t see it. “Everything poetic.
The Arts are the only acceptable theatre of war for peace.
Two objects cannot occupy the same space at the same time. We've never quite made peace with that in the theater---set designer Robin Wagner
Theater is the crucible where we can create the dynamics of life without suffering the flames of their combustion.
Judith (sadly): A change has come over my children of late. I have tried to shut my eyes to it, but in vain. At my time of life one must face bitter facts!
In any case, the goal is the same: to connect.
All life is theatre, ' he said. 'We are all actors, you and I, in a play which nobody wrote and which nobody will see. We have no audience but ourselves....
I always am in a role, lovely – for you, for them – even for myself. Yeah... Even when I’m alone, I am still in a role – and I myself am the most exacting audience I have ever had.
You know how thick I am. I don't even eat yoghurt because it's got culture in it.
You can't lock yourself up and make yourself completely safe. You can't. It's not possible.
If I die tomorrow, I'll be alright because I believe that after we're gone, spirit carries on...
If formality and courtesy take over the feelings . . . how silly and meaningless these things could become. And despite all this, I still take part in it!
Powerpoint presentations are a kind of theater, a kind of augmented stand-up. Too often it's a boring and tedious genre, and audiences are subjected to the bad as well as the good.
The theater is a communal event, like church. The playwright constructs a mass to be performed for a lot of people. She writes a prayer, which is really just the longings of one heart.
If you have a rifle, hanging on the wall in the first act, it should fire in the last act”.
Physicality is the basis of performance.
There is no limit to what a person can do that has been inspired by the arts!
Then in the spring something happened to me. Yes, I remember. I fell in love with James Tyrone and was so happy for time.
I'm really very sorry for you all, but it's an unjust world, and virtue is triumphant only in theatrical performances.
If Patti Lupone was born to play Evita then Madonna was born to play Patti Lupone playing Evita.
I am not interested in living in a city where there isn't a production by Samuel Beckett running.
