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Go to the Martin Beck Theatre and watch Katherine Hepburn run the gamut of emotions from A to B. ~ Dorothy Parker
Theatre quotes by Dorothy Parker
The people on the business side in the music business are kind of different from the theatre business. I think it's partly because there are different pressures on the industries. ~ Tim Curry
Theatre quotes by Tim Curry
In Shakespeare, keep it simple. Don't over-inflect. The speech needs to be naturalistic and simple and accessible as much as possible. ~ Ralph Fiennes
Theatre quotes by Ralph Fiennes
Opera is musical theatre, and the music can teach you so much about the theatre. Very often I use musical terms to think about how I comport myself on stage: I employ 'rubati,' 'ostinati,' 'cadenze.' Finding these parallels is very fascinating for me. ~ Toni Servillo
Theatre quotes by Toni Servillo
When you come out of the theatre and you don't even talk about that film or remember it, then it disappoints me. ~ Irrfan Khan
Theatre quotes by Irrfan Khan
The truth is that the spectators are always in their senses, and know, from the first act to the last, that the stage is only a stage, and that the players are only players. ~ Samuel Johnson
Theatre quotes by Samuel Johnson
There is no definitive list of the duties of a stage manager that is applicable to all theaters and staging environments. Regardless of specific duties, however, the stage manager is the individual who accepts responsibility for the smooth running of rehearsals and performances, on stage and backstage. ~ Laurence Sterne
Theatre quotes by Laurence Sterne
My approach to 'Eastenders' is the same as my approach to film and the same approach to theatre. Whatever I do, I use the same skills and tools. ~ Steve McFadden
Theatre quotes by Steve McFadden
Acting is a sport. On stage you must be ready to move like a tennis player on his toes. Your concentration must be keen, your reflexes sharp; your body and mind are in top gear, the chase is on. Acting is energy. In the theatre people pay to see energy. ~ Clive Swift
Theatre quotes by Clive Swift
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
Theatre quotes by Emma Watson
I am grateful to theatre for making me what I am today. But it's not like theatre is my first love. I am equally attached to cinema, which is, actually, a child of theatre, since it borrows heavily from it. ~ Om Puri
Theatre quotes by Om Puri
I really loved Twin Peaks. When I saw the two-hour pilot, they screened it in the big theatre. I said, I don't know what is going to happen. I'm in this and I don't understand it. This is never going to sell. Who's going to watch this thing? ~ Sherilyn Fenn
Theatre quotes by Sherilyn Fenn
The message of the Nazarene had been turned into a weapon in some religious power game. 'Look how they love one another' just didn't seem an apt description of the bizarre religious theatre I'd just witnessed. ~ Dylan Morrison
Theatre quotes by Dylan Morrison
The light was crude. It made Artaud's eyes shrink into darkness, as they are deep-set. This brought into relief the intensity of his gestures. He looked tormented. His hair, rather long, fell at times over his forehead. He has the actor's nimbleness and quickness of gestures. His face is lean, as if ravaged by fevers. His eyes do not seem to see the people. They are the eyes of a visionary. His hands are long, long-fingered.
Beside him Allendy looks earthy, heavy, gray. He sits at the desk, massive, brooding. Artaud steps out on the platform, and begins to talk about " The Theatre and the Plague."
He asked me to sit in the front row. It seems to me that all he is asking for is intensity, a more heightened form of feeling and living. Is he trying to remind us that it was during the Plague that so many marvelous works of art and theater came to be, because, whipped by the fear of death, man seeks immortality, or to escape, or to surpass himself? But then, imperceptibly almost, he let go of the thread we were following and began to act out dying by plague. No one quite knew when it began. To illustrate his conference, he was acting out an agony. "La Peste" in French is so much more terrible than "The Plague" in English. But no word could describe what Artaud acted out on the platform of the Sorbonne. He forgot about his conference, the theatre, his ideas, Dr. Allendy sitting there, the public, the young students, his wife, professors, and directors.
His face was ~ Anais Nin
Theatre quotes by Anais Nin
I was never a joiner. I tried - I had people I admired and liked and wanted to hang with, but I ended up starting a theatre company and that took me back to Chicago ... I guess I wasn't a scenester in the end. Something must have worked out right, as I'm still here - but I'm only a binge socialite. ~ John Cusack
Theatre quotes by John Cusack
The drama may be called that part of theatrical art which lends itself most readily to intellectual discussion: what is left is theater. ~ Robertson Davies
Theatre quotes by Robertson Davies
No person who is enthusiastic about her work has anything to fear from life. ~ Samuel Goldwyn
Theatre quotes by Samuel Goldwyn
I like to keep up with London theatre, but it is a question of time. ~ Charles Dance
Theatre quotes by Charles Dance
All actors say they're concerned about the state of the theatre, but what they're really concerned about is that there'll be less work around. ~ Michael Gambon
Theatre quotes by Michael Gambon
When I began doing theatre in high school I saw that I could get laughs from people but I didn't really connect that to going on and becoming a comedian. I was interested in acting and while I was at Boston College I was part of an improv group, Mother's Fleabag, which had a long history and has been known as one of the best college improvisation groups in the U.S. ~ Amy Poehler
Theatre quotes by Amy Poehler
Only in the theatre was it possible to see the performers and to be warmed by their personal charm, to respond to their efforts and to feel their response to the applause and appreciative laughter of the audience. It had an intimate quality; audience and actors conspired to make a little oasis of happiness and mirth within the walls of the theatre. Try as we will, we cannot be intimate with a shadow on a screen, nor a voice from a box. ~ Robertson Davies
Theatre quotes by Robertson Davies
'Doctor Who' was my first telly job, and before that I did a lot of theatre in education, children's theatre. ~ Sophie Aldred
Theatre quotes by Sophie Aldred
Writing, and its theatre of operation, is better than working shifts packing frozen sausages; that's all I need to think about if I'm having difficulties. ~ Sarah Hall
Theatre quotes by Sarah Hall
Theatre is an exclusive place that tends to be dominated by white men, or dying white men. ~ Katori Hall
Theatre quotes by Katori Hall
Satisfy people's desire for the ridiculous and they will accept your idea of the sublime. ~ Maurice Willson Disher
Theatre quotes by Maurice Willson Disher
I live in Los Angeles where there is not that much in the way of theatre, so the La Jolla Playhouse is pretty much the only place that is on my radar, and when they have something going on, and I am available, I will certainly go in. ~ Jimmi Simpson
Theatre quotes by Jimmi Simpson
I love the stage, I love the process of acting in theatre, but unfortunately, it doesn't pay the bills. ~ Kabir Bedi
Theatre quotes by Kabir Bedi
Kenji Mizoguchi is to the cinema what Bach is to music, Cervantes is to literature, Shakespeare is to theatre, Titian is to painting: the very greatest. ~ Jean Douchet
Theatre quotes by Jean Douchet
Also, if you want to reach people, theatre is not always the best way to do it. ~ Harvey Fierstein
Theatre quotes by Harvey Fierstein
In my collection, to me at least, the theatre of the past lives again and those long-dead playwrights and actors have in me an enthralled audience of one, and I applaud them across the centuries. ~ Robertson Davies
Theatre quotes by Robertson Davies
I don't rehearse films as much as opera or theatre. When I began directing films I thought a long rehearsal was a good idea. Experience showed me that the best performance was often left in a rehearsal room. ~ Bruce Beresford
Theatre quotes by Bruce Beresford
When you're doing a play and you're afraid of a scene, that's the scene you should embrace, because that's the scene that will tell you something about the play. ~ Raul Esparza
Theatre quotes by Raul Esparza
Unease is not an emotion I get often in the theatre, and I like it. ~ Tim Crouch
Theatre quotes by Tim Crouch
It's lovely that the Hollywood stars are crossing over to Broadway ... There used to be such a dividing line in the country between Hollywood and the theatre and that's just melting away. It's just wonderful right now! ~ Julie Andrews
Theatre quotes by Julie Andrews
It is raining! In other words little poems are coming down from the sky! Nature is literature! Sun is a fable; forest is a story; birds are a theatre; mountains are a myth; rain is a poem! Nature is literature! ~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
Theatre quotes by Mehmet Murat Ildan
The theatre is supremely fitted to say: 'Behold! These things are.' Yet most dramatists employ it to say: 'This moral truth can be learned from beholding this action.' ~ Thornton Wilder
Theatre quotes by Thornton Wilder
I believe in stories that are non-linear, as we are (hopefully) ~ Natasha Tsakos
Theatre quotes by Natasha Tsakos
Mankind has invented the mirror in vain, for there's nobody in this world who looks into the mirror and sees himself as he truly is; each person has his own mirror hidden in his own mind and he can't see more than what that mirror in his mind reflects! ~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
Theatre quotes by Mehmet Murat Ildan
Theatre is great, but we don't live in an idealistic world, and we have to pay our bills. ~ Randeep Hooda
Theatre quotes by Randeep Hooda
The world is no longer man's theatre. Man has been made into a helpless spectator. The two evil forces he has created- science and the state- have combined into one monstrous body. We're at the mercy of our monster... ~ Eugene Burdick
Theatre quotes by Eugene Burdick
In a good play every speech should be as fully flavored as a nut or apple. ~ John Millington Synge
Theatre quotes by John Millington Synge
Once you do a piece on the stage, you become that poem or you become that piece. That's really who you are. I think that's why some artists have stage names, you know? I don't have a stage name, it's pretty much just me. ~ Clinton D. Powell
Theatre quotes by Clinton D. Powell
I want to be able to follow the example of those extraordinary British actresses who move effortlessly from film to TV to theatre roles. ~ Cate Blanchett
Theatre quotes by Cate Blanchett
But it would be broadcast, and in the great public theatre of his age; that unregulated market of braying narcissists, that Wild West of disinformation and fraud, that infinite sea of piracy, the great electorate where the constituency of billions voted their approval with a click of a mouse. The internet. It brought governments down and rewrote history ... ~ Adam Nevill
Theatre quotes by Adam Nevill
The play is on top of me all the time, and I am constantly thinking about it. Even when I leave the theatre, I'll mumble the lines to myself or think about the way the character walks or holds himself. ~ Donald Pleasence
Theatre quotes by Donald Pleasence
There are those who go to the theatre as they would go to a brothel ~ Antonin Artaud
Theatre quotes by Antonin Artaud
There's nowhere to hide in the theatre. You can't be the one in rehearsal who doesn't know their lines. ~ Keeley Hawes
Theatre quotes by Keeley Hawes
Like hungry guests, a sitting audience looks / Plays are like suppers; poets are the cooks / The founder's you; the table is this place / The carvers we; the prologue is the grace / Each act a course, each scene, a different dish. ~ George Farquhar
Theatre quotes by George Farquhar
To treat a big subject in the intensely summarized fashion demanded by an evening's traffic of the stage when the evening, freely clipped at each end, is reduced to two hours and a half, is a feat of which the difficulty looms large. ~ Henry James
Theatre quotes by Henry James
I had to spend a few years learning how to do movies. I wasn't really good at that. I was a theatre actor first and foremost. So I took my time learning that. ~ Lars Mikkelsen
Theatre quotes by Lars Mikkelsen
Nadya Zelenin and her mother had returned from a performance of Eugene Onegin at the theatre. Going into her room, the girl swiftly threw off her dress and let her hair down. Then she quickly sat at the table in her petticoat and white bodice to write a letter like Tatyana's.
'I love you,' she wrote, 'but you don't love me, you don't love me!'
Having written this, she laughed.
She was only sixteen and had never loved anyone yet. She knew that Gorny (an army officer) and Gruzdyov (a student) were both in love with her, but now, after the opera, she wanted to doubt their love. To be unloved and miserable: what an attractive idea! There was something beautiful, touching and romantic about A loving B when B wasn't interested in A. Onegin was attractive in not loving at all, while Tatyana was enchanting because she loved greatly. Had they loved equally and been happy they might have seemed boring.
("After The Theatre") ~ Anton Chekhov
Theatre quotes by Anton Chekhov
I have ambitions to do a Broadway record one of these days and get in the studio with like, a real orchestra. I'm a big musical theatre geek. ~ Mandy Moore
Theatre quotes by Mandy Moore
There's a tradition in British intellectual life of mocking any non-political force that gets involved in politics, especially within the sphere of the arts and the theatre. ~ Harold Pinter
Theatre quotes by Harold Pinter
There's an infantilization that happens to actresses in general - musical theatre, straight theatre, television, film - we're spoken to like children. Actors are spoken to like children a lot of the time. ~ Laura Benanti
Theatre quotes by Laura Benanti
Too often in the theatre people can't wait for intermission to get some chocolate or something. But with Come Back, Little Sheba I just hope people leave feeling like they've spent a really good two-hours in that house with us. ~ Zoe Kazan
Theatre quotes by Zoe Kazan
Every place is a goldmine. You have only to give yourself time, sit in a teahouse watching the passers-by, stand in a corner of the market, go for a haircut. You pick up a thread – a word, a meeting, a friend of a friend of someone you have just met – and soon the most insipid, most insignificant place becomes a mirror of the world, a window on life, a theatre of humanity. ~ Tiziano Terzani
Theatre quotes by Tiziano Terzani
It should have been the Arabian Nights, but to Bond, seeing it first above the tops of trams and above the great scars of modern advertising along the river frontage, it seemed a once beautiful theatre-set that modern Turkey had thrown aside in favour of the steel and concrete flat-iron of the Istanbul-Hilton Hotel, blankly glittering behind him on the heights of Pera. ~ Ian Fleming
Theatre quotes by Ian Fleming
I think some of my best theatre training has been in the Marine Corps. Not only meeting a bunch of characters, but growing up. You're in really adult situations at a young age, as far as being in charge of people. ~ Adam Driver
Theatre quotes by Adam Driver
I started off dancing and playing sports, and I joined the drama stuff, the theatre stuff in middle school because my friends were involved, and it was kind of the cool thing to do. ~ Kara Lindsay
Theatre quotes by Kara Lindsay
I fear that I won't work in the theatre again. I'm sad about that. But I won't retire. ~ Maggie Smith
Theatre quotes by Maggie Smith
The first time my mum and dad went to the theatre was at my drama school in third year. ~ Amanda Hale
Theatre quotes by Amanda Hale
Cedar, and pine, and fir, and branching palm, A sylvan scene, and as the ranks ascend Shade above shade, a woody theatre Of stateliest view. ~ John Milton
Theatre quotes by John Milton
I find that actors who are wanting to pursue tv or films don't seem to have much interest in classical theatre. ~ Renee O'Connor
Theatre quotes by Renee O'Connor
I just enjoy acting, whatever area - theatre, film, television. ~ Michelle Dockery
Theatre quotes by Michelle Dockery
Acting's entertainment. It's not brain surgery. ~ Anthony Hopkins
Theatre quotes by Anthony Hopkins
I did a little theatre work after that and the following year I got another part in a television series. Then it was almost to the end of the year before I got more work. That was coming to terms with the reality of the vocation I had chosen. ~ Karl Urban
Theatre quotes by Karl Urban
The TV show I do ['Dr Quinn'] is the day job that enables me to work with this theater [Pacific Resident Theatre Ensemble]. That's all I live for. That's what I care about. There's no dough in it. Nothing to do but lose money. But it's all from the heart, and that's why it's so much fun. ~ Orson Bean
Theatre quotes by Orson Bean
Even though I had a great deal of respect for children's TV and theatre, it wasn't my intent to specialize solely in that area. I did indeed want to work on shows like "Sesame Street" and I am honored to be even a small part of that legacy, but I also wanted to do characters that had wider vocabulary and satirical humor. ~ Stephanie D'Abruzzo
Theatre quotes by Stephanie D'Abruzzo
I always had a good time in theatre, even when shows don't turn out as well as I'd like. ~ Harold Prince
Theatre quotes by Harold Prince
I had been nine years in the theatre and hadn't had massive success. My only thing was I wanted to be an actor and I didn't care when, where, or how much for. ~ Michael Caine
Theatre quotes by Michael Caine
The deaf community is in a favorable position because they have a national theatre and training groups of their own to get them started. Deaf actors have often acquired very valuable skills and experience before they get their break. ~ Richard Masur
Theatre quotes by Richard Masur
But in the UK, I've given up any hope of being considered a director. ~ Mel Smith
Theatre quotes by Mel Smith
I started out in theatre and I definitely have wanted to add extra musical elements to my music with both imagery and text. ~ Glenn Branca
Theatre quotes by Glenn Branca
I never had any classes or went to theatre school like a lot of actors, so all of my training has been on stage with different directors. That was a pretty good school room. ~ James Denton
Theatre quotes by James Denton
A lot of my friends were a lot into theatre a lot earlier than I was. A lot of my friends were kids who were in The Broadway Kids and the kids auditioning for Gavroche in 'Les Miz.' I was never that kid. I was weaned on Michael Jackson. Not literally, because that would have been odd. ~ Erich Bergen
Theatre quotes by Erich Bergen
It being a remarkable fact in theatrical history, but one long since established beyond dispute, that it is a hopeless endeavor to attract people to a theatre unless they can be first brought to believe that they will never get in. ~ Charles Dickens
Theatre quotes by Charles Dickens
I am interested in the shape of ideas, even if I do not believe in them ~ Samuel Beckett
Theatre quotes by Samuel Beckett
I submit all my plays to the National Theatre for rejection. To assure myself I am seeing clearly. ~ Howard Barker
Theatre quotes by Howard Barker
My biggest ambition when I was younger was to appear on stage at what was then Nimrod, which is the theatre where my father used to take me on Sunday afternoons to see matinees. The most extraordinary things used to occur on that stage. ~ David Wenham
Theatre quotes by David Wenham
Feelings are universal, and if an actor's doing his job, I think he's making people sit there, and if it's in a movie or a theatre, going 'Hmm, yeah, I know that ... I know that.' ~ Jeffrey Combs
Theatre quotes by Jeffrey Combs
A play is a blueprint of an event: a way of creating and rewriting history through the medium of literature. Since history is a recorded or remembered event, theatre, for me, is the perfect place to 'make' history--that is, because so much of African-American history has been unrecorded, dismembered, washed out, one of my tasks as a playwright is to--through literature and the special strange relationship between theatre and real-life--locate the ancestral burial ground, dig for bones, find bones, hear the bones sing, write it down. ~ Suzan-Lori Parks
Theatre quotes by Suzan-Lori Parks
The sovereign people, legislators, and reformers, see in public offices, to speak plainly, only opportunities for pecuniary advancement. And, because it regards them as a source of profit, it decrees the eligibility of citizens. For of what use would this precaution be, if there were nothing to gain by it? No one would think of ordaining that none but astronomers and geographers should be pilots, nor of prohibiting stutterers from acting at the theatre and the opera. The nation was still aping the kings: like them it wished to award the lucrative positions to its friends and flatterers. Unfortunately, and this last feature completes the resemblance, the nation did not control the list of livings; that was in the hands of its agents and representatives. They, on the other hand, took care not to thwart the will of their gracious sovereign. ~ Pierre-Joseph Proudhon
Theatre quotes by Pierre-Joseph Proudhon
I used to do a lot of serious theatre during my school and college days. Comedy was only reserved for youth festival and inter-college competitions. Then once 'The Great Indian Laughter Challenge' was launched, a regional channel in Punjab started a program based on that. I participated in it and emerged as the winner. ~ Kapil Sharma
Theatre quotes by Kapil Sharma
If you can't face Hiroshima in the theatre, you'll eventually end up in Hiroshima itself ~ Edward Bond
Theatre quotes by Edward Bond
Shakespeare has way too many lines. My ideal theatre piece is about 40 minutes long with no interval. ~ Daniel Craig
Theatre quotes by Daniel Craig
The theatre, which is my most comfortable place, unfortunately it's very hard to make a living in. ~ Kevin Conroy
Theatre quotes by Kevin Conroy
That's the thing - you do a job like 'Shameless,' and suddenly that's why you can get a job like 'The Virgin Queen', not because of all the classical theatre you've done. But we can be very snippy about television. It's absolutely the most potent and powerful form of storytelling we have. ~ Anne-Marie Duff
Theatre quotes by Anne-Marie Duff
I don't see why people want new plays all the time. What would happen to concerts if people wanted new music all the time? ~ Clive Barnes
Theatre quotes by Clive Barnes
The theatre-acting, creating, interpreting - means total involvement, the totality of heart, mind and spirit. ~ Stella Adler
Theatre quotes by Stella Adler
With dance and theatre, I think people get very nervous about not knowing the right things. They feel like they've missed something, or that they're not bright enough to watch it. It's not a test. ~ Wayne McGregor
Theatre quotes by Wayne McGregor
I'm excited about the idea of an act of theatre triggering a parallel creative act of writing. ~ Tim Crouch
Theatre quotes by Tim Crouch
I don't think theatre has changed; it's society that has changed. ~ Lee Hall
Theatre quotes by Lee Hall
Show me a beautiful man whose heart trembles behind the scene of a theatre, and I shall love him forever. ~ Sofia Navarro
Theatre quotes by Sofia Navarro
I was interested in theatre and media and came to Mumbai to get a job. I imagined that the film industry would be a white building with producers sitting in different rooms, and you could walk in and meet them, and they would interview you and select you. ~ Imtiaz Ali
Theatre quotes by Imtiaz Ali
Years ago, there was a variety theatre in every British town, and people paid to go down and see it. Comedy was the main part of the theatre, and comedians earned a living by being funny. Now you have comedy in television instead. Comedians now have to be funny within a play. ~ Norman Wisdom
Theatre quotes by Norman Wisdom
Scottish Theatre's greatest success story of recent times. ~ Alan Chadwick
Theatre quotes by Alan Chadwick
JOHNNY: Friends! Outcasts. Leeches. Undesirables. A blessing on you, and upon this beggars' banquet. This day we draw a line in the chalk, and push back against the bastard pitiless busybody council, and drive them from this place for ever. I, Rooster Byron, your merciless ruler, have decreed that today all my bounty is bestowed upon you, gratis. There will be free booze, bangers, draw, whizz and whatnot, for all the minions of my kingdom. ~ Jez Butterworth
Theatre quotes by Jez Butterworth
Light and Darkness are never balanced. Nor Good and Evil. One cannot balance a something with a nothing.

The mystery behind the disruptive forces of chaos and evility is that these particulars cannot even commit to themselves - they are their own undoing - and the foulness that would corrupt, corrupts itself.

Those who align with evility invite their own destruction. Our crusade, as caretakers of the Spirit, the One Spirit, is to remain indifferent to the theatre of destruction, and be true to the permanency of all that is good. ~ Gabriel Brunsdon
Theatre quotes by Gabriel Brunsdon
If you want more people to come to the theatre, don't put the prices at £50. You have to make theatre inclusive, and at the moment the prices are exclusive. Putting TV stars in plays just to get people in is wrong. You have to have the right people in the right parts. Stunt casting and being gimmicky does the theatre a great disservice. You have to lure people by getting them excited about a theatrical experience. ~ Catherine Tate
Theatre quotes by Catherine Tate
My style is an extension of acting and an outcome of some serious lessons I picked up learning when I did theatre in my early days. ~ Kapil Sharma
Theatre quotes by Kapil Sharma
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