Theatre Quotes

We have freedom of speech, but you got to watch what you say.

The object is freedom.

I call the art of theatre a "dirty art", since there are so many people involved who have needs and whims to be satisfied.

Has anybody ever seen a dramatic critic in the daytime? Of course not. They come out after dark, up to no good.

Theatres are built because they were the boards for entertainment.

I don't have a preference between theatre and film; I like to do both. But I will say that there's something about theatre that is more nourishing and sustaining than film ever can be.

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.

The best actors do not let the wheels show.

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.

Embarrassment is a partner in the creative act.

I think I'm a better actress for having friends and interests outside the theatre. I wouldn't want to live my life surrounded by other actors all the time.

To save the Theatre, the Theatre must be destroyed, and actors and actresses all die of the Plague ... they make art impossible.

I like a good story well told. That is the reason I am sometimes forced to tell them myself.

Theatre is about people, not buildings. Incalculable damage has been done to the expert talent a company needs - from wardrobe to lighting technicians.

An actor is part illusionist, part artist, part ham.

I've always loved musical theatre. I've always been a big kind of closeted musical theatre nerd. I really have always dreamed about being able to do musical theatre.

I regard the theatre as a serious business, one that makes or should make man more human, which is to say, less alone.

As for theatre, there's ups and downs to everything. Theatre is ephemeral. But that is part of its charm because you can always say the production was better than it was.

Cruelty in the theatre is unrelenting decisiveness, diligence, strictness.

So I told my mum that I'd opened a theatre. She said, "Are you having me on?" I said, "Well I'll give you an audition, but I'm not promising you anything."

Theatre is poetry that rises from the book and becomes human enough to talk and shout, weep and despair

Acting is not a state of being ... but a state of appearing to be.

I don't remember what my favourite comedy film is - truthfully! I saw Borat and I thought I was not going to be able to get out of the theatre because I was in so much pain from the laughter.

There are a few directors around who I have some excitement about spending my $7 at the theatre watching their movies.

I knew I wanted it to be a piece of theatre rather than just a concert.

You'd think is something one would grow out of. But you grow into it. The more you do, the more you realize how painfully easy it is to be lousy and how very difficult to be good.

In raising a people from slavery to freedom, you have called them to act on a new theatre; and it is a necessary part of your business, to teach them how to perform their parts.

The world 's a theatre, the earth a stage, Which God and Nature do with actors fill.

I'm a bad liar; I don't know what to say backstage.

The virtue of dress rehearsals is that they are a free show for a select group of artists and friends of the author, and where for one unique evening the audience is almost expurgated of idiots.

The frivolity with which all theatrical activity is conducted has one consoling feature-there are no rules of behavior that apply regularly to any part of the theatre.

Theatre audiences can't be made to think and cry: at best, they can be made to think and laugh, or to feel and cry.

Acting touches nerves you have absolutely no control over.

We're actors. We're the opposite of people.

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.

I guess I think of a musical as something in which the music is sort of like the engine of the piece - whether it is in the theatre or in film.

All that day she had had the feeling that she was playing in the theatre with actors better than herself and that her poor playing spoiled the whole thing.

I still think of myself as a stage actor. When I do film and television I try to implement what I was taught to do in theatre, to try to stretch into characters that are far from myself.

Charity in the theater begins and ends with those who have a play opening within a week of one's own.

Is it not a noble farce, wherein kings, republics, and emperors have for so many ages played their parts, and to which the whole vast universe serves for a theatre?

Satire is what closes Saturday night.

Movies are a complicated collision of literature, theatre, music and all the visual arts.

I sweat. If anything comes easy to me I mistrust it.

I love the rehearsal process in the theatre, and the visceral sense of contact and communication with a live audience.

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

Most Americans would agree that Plowshares is a Theatre of the Absurd.

It was only in the theatre that I lived

Your eyes will always go to red, which is why there is a lady in red in all my shows.

Every time I listened to Lux Radio Theatre, I wanted to vomit.

A theatre receives recognition through its initiative, which is indispensable for first-rate performances.