Famous Quotes & Sayings

Bette Davis

Pray to God and say the lines.

Ajay Naidu

I like the theatre because you paint with broad strokes. To me the theatre is stretching its definition really far.

Billy Bob Thornton

We didn't have a movie theatre until I was about nine, so I just didn't see them. But, once I got into movies I loved them.

Dominic Monaghan

When I choose projects, I don't stipulate between film or theatre or television. I receive scripts and I read scripts - and when I read a script that's good, I then get married to it and talk to my agent about what happens next.

Boris Spassky

We can compare classical chess and rapid chess with theatre and cinema - some actors don't like the latter and prefer to work in the theatre.

Ben Nicholas

I have mainly come from a theatre background, I did 'Oliver' here I played the Artful Dodger and I did 'The Sound of Music.

Arthur Miller

The theater is so endlessly fascinating because it's so accidental. It's so much like life.

Dennis Christopher

My first Broadway show was with Elizabeth Taylor and Maureen Stapleton. Maureen Stapleton, a legend in the theatre; Elizabeth Taylor, a legend, period.

Edgar Allan Poe

One half of the pleasure experienced at a theatre arises from the spectator's sympathy with the rest of the audience, and, especially from his belief in their sympathy with him.

Chris Evans

For the youth, the indignation of most things will just surge as each birthday passes.

Benjamin Disraeli

To be famous when you are young is the fortune of the gods.

Bruce Catton

Early youth is a baffling time

Barbara Mertz

A fondness for martyrdom, especially of the verbal variety, is common to the young.

Alexander the Great

At Achilles tomb, O fortunate youth, to have found Homer as the herald of your glory!

Aeschylus

Learning is ever in the freshness of its youth, even for the old.

Agatha Christie

Youth is a failing only too easily outgrown.

E. W. Howe

Youth is about the only thing worth having, and that is about the only thing youth has.

Stephen Kinzer

It is never wise to discourage youthful idealism.