Theatre Quotes

Love art in yourself, and not yourself in art.

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

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.

I became an artist because I wanted to be an active participant in the conversation about art.

The Magician makes the visible, invisible.The Scientist makes the invisible, visible.The Artist stands in between, indivisible.

These days, you could stage a three-point orgy in the garden and nobody would bat an eye...

Humans had built a world inside the world, which reflected it in pretty much the same way as a drop of water reflected the landscape. And yet ... and y

Art doesn’t give rise to anything in us that isn’t already there. It simply stirs our curious consciousness and sparks a fire that illuminates who we have always wanted to be.

A red nose is the clown's mask and my moustache is mine.

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?

Theatre is a voyage into the archives of the human imagination

It’s no longer history in the making. It’s our story we are making.

There are those who dance the notes, and those who dance the music.

What I want is irrelevant. This is your life, Faith.

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

Well, it doesn't look good. Makes me look like one of those unloved latchkey children they make after-school specials about.""Don't sell yourself short. You're more Masterpiece Theatre.

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.

Without writers, stories would not be written, Without actors, stories could not be brought to life.

How will the performer-audience interaction change, now that we are so used to participating in the lives of strangers?

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

Theatre is pure teleportation by means of suspension. It’s a voyage into the archives of the human imagination. A passport to all what ifs.

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....

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 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.

A film that is a true work of art transcends theatre and heartwarmingly changes lives.

What if Theater was the Pong of the the digital Ping?A place where the live experience has an function?

The gateway to the underworld is seen as part antiquity and part theatre. Welcome to the lower depths.

What I wear on and off stage is my mask. You see, a mask doesn't hide you, it exposes you.

I AM the current curator of the black trunk and the stories it holds within.

Let's sing our way out of this

If you live a long life and get to the end of it without ever once having felt crushingly depressed, then you probably haven’t been paying attention.

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.

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

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

When you step from the wings onto the stage you go from total blackness to a blinding hot glare. After a moment you adjust, but there is that moment. like being inside lightning.

I have Shakespeared my Moliere to Tenessee, and I am Wild for Becket! But I got a little tired of the redundancy.

Backstage was chaos distilled into a very small space.

Artists are social sensors and transmitters of ideas

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.

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

In any case, the goal is the same: to connect.

[Cinema]… obeys the laws of the mind rather than those of the outer world.

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.

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

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

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.

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