Theatre Quotes

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To enter a theatre for a performance is to be inducted into a magical space, to be ushered into the sacred arena of the imagination.

A walking shadow a poor player that struts and frets his hour upon the stage and then is heard no more.

The play was a great success but the audience was a disaster.

If one good deed in all my life I did, I do repent it from my very soul.

Not to go to the theatre is like making one's toilet without a mirror.

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.

If you give audiences a chance they'll do half your acting for you.

A play should give you something to think about. When I see a play and understand it the first time then I know it can't be much good.

All the world's a stage.

I feel as if I could be any thing or every thing, as if I could rant and storm, or sigh, or cut capers in any tragedy or comedy in the English language.

Every baseball crowd, like every theatre audience, has its own distinctive attitude and atmosphere.

I started in theatre. I was at Cleveland and I went to London for the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare's birth.

The strength of British theatre should be that these actors in their middle years know what they're doing and are good at it. Not rich, not famous, but making a living.

[ELIZA]You and your words flooded my senses, your sentences left me defenseless. You built me palaces out of paragraphs, you built cathedrals.

I got amazing training both with Theatre Sports... back in Edmonton, Alberta - I can't give those people enough credit - and the daytime drama I did. Incredible training, both of them.

What are all the thoughts rattling in your mind when you're not listening to the answers to questions you ask?" -Jo, Boom

The theatre is a place where one has time for the problems of people to whom one would show the door if they came to one's office for a job.

If you were born with the ability to change someone’s perspective or emotions, never waste that gift. It is one of the most powerful gifts God can give—the ability to influence.

Theatre is a must for actors. They should try it at least once. It makes you disciplined, teaches you to respect your work, and boosts your confidence as an actor.

We're actors — we're the opposite of people!

I started elocution lessons because I was being teased, and I had a brilliant drama teacher. At the age of 14, I appeared at the National Theatre in 'The Crucible.'

What was it like to live amidst such machines, to be familiar with them, to have them shape one's earliest intuitions about machinery: how it works, what it does, how it compares to living creatures?

No actor is a success unless he feels inside himself, as long as he lives, that he is good.

You'll never really be great unless you aim high.

I've never been in love, never in my life.Oh, I've dreamed of love, dreamed endlessly, day and night, but my soul is like a fine piano that's locked, and the key is lost.

I had loved poetry and the theatre. Now I loved adventure more.

When you snatch happiness in little bits, fits and starts, and lose it, like me, you become coarse, little by little, you become hateful.

You never get anywhere until you figure out the difference between passion and compassion.

Family is the theatre of the spiritual drama, the place where things happen, especially the things that matter.

It is raining! In other words little poems are coming down from the sky! Nature is literature! Sun is a fable

Make them laugh, make them cry, and hack to laughter. What do people go to the theatre for? An emotional exercise. I am a servant of the people. I have never forgotten that.

Theatre is a sacred space for actors. You are responsible you are in the driving-seat.

When a show ends, for a few days, my body sizzles with leftover energy, like a tree in the wake of a lightning strike.

The best author is a dead author, because he's out of your way and you own the play. Take what he has given you and use it for what you need.

A good drama critic is one who perceives what is happening in the theatre of his time. A great drama critic also perceives what is not happening.

The imagination is closer to the actor than real life-more agreeable, more comfortable.

Acting is a question of absorbing other people's personalities and adding some of your own experience.

An actor is a guy who if you ain't talking about him ain't listening.

An agent is a guy who is sore because an actor gets 90% of what he makes.

Bugs Bunny - the perfect employee. Never absent. Never late. Never changes the script. Doesn't have an agent. Never asks for a percent of the profit. Doesn't ask to have his relatives on the payroll.

No form of art goes beyond ordinary consciousness as film does straight to our emotions deep into the twilight room of the soul.

She was good at playing abstract confusion in the same way that a midget is good at being short.

The best audience is intelligent well-educated and a little drunk.

I fear that I won't work in the theatre again. I'm sad about that. But I won't retire.

The structure of a play is always the story of how the birds come home to roost.

I was very interested in theatre, mostly in stage design. I did a little bit of acting.

When the characters are really alive before their author the latter does nothing but follow them in their action in their words in the situations which they suggest to him.

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.

Bolivian women sewed their lips shut for days. They threaded needles through their skin to stop their speech, to show what good speaking had done them.

Working in the theatre has a lot in common with unemployment.