Quotes about theatre
theatre roles paper
All the best performers bring to their role something more, something different than what the author put on paper. That's what makes theatre live. That's why it persists. Stephen Sondheim
theatre calling process
Playwriting isn't a calling so much as it is a hazing process. Paula Vogel
theatre lasts draws
I always go back to theatre. It's probably where I'll draw my last breath. Peter Gallagher
theatre bears influence
In the theatre, every form once born is mortal; every form must be reconceived, and its new conception will bear the marks of all the influences that surround it. Peter Brook
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Nothing in theatre has any meaning before or after. Meaning is now.
theatre british backgrounds
We had our British background of traditional theatre behind us. Peter Capaldi
theatre care scripts
Whenever I get a good script, I don't care whether it's telly or theatre or big screen - I'm not bothered. Pete Postlethwaite
theatre chekhov hardest
I love playing Chekhov. That's the hardest; that's why I love it most. Uta Hagen
theatre stuff events
Once in a while, there's stuff that makes me say, That's what theatre's about. It has to be a human event on the stage, and that doesn't happen very often.
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You don't choose the theatre; The theatre choses you Susan Sullivan
theatre fool actors
A fool cannot be an actor, though an actor may act a fool's part. Sophocles
theatre way facts
I love storytelling and I love just relating directly to an audience. That's why we do theatre, it's because we love contact with the audience. We love the fact that the audience will change us. The way the audience responds makes us change our performance. Simon Callow
theatre trying stuff
I came from the Groundlings Theatre in L.A., and there, you're guaranteed to at least try something out in front of an audience. At 'SNL,' only the best stuff gets picked, and it's taught me a very defined language of comedy. You learn the structure of a joke, which is not something I was very good at beforehand. Taran Killam
theatre band pops
In the future, bands are going to have to offer more than a pop show. They are going to have to an offer a well presented theatre show Syd Barrett
theatre these-days very-good
Many of the Universities have very good Theatre Departments these days. Tony Randall
theatre kingdoms world
This visible world is wonderfully to be delighted in, and highly to be esteemed, because it is the theatre of God's righteous Kingdom. Thomas Traherne
theatre talent function
The primary function of a theatre is not to please itself, or even to please its audience. It is to serve talent. Robert Brustein
theatre obstacles disaster
Theatre is a series of insurmountable obstacles on the road to imminent disaster. Tom Stoppard
theatre emotion
Unease is not an emotion I get often in the theatre, and I like it. Tim Crouch
theatre excess youth
You go through a process of refinement and getting rid of the excesses of your early youth in terms of your excitement about what theatre can do. Stephen Daldry
theatre way temples
To me, the theatre - I don't like to say it, but I'll say it - is a temple in a kind of way, where human beings go to be elevated. Shelley Winters
theatre individual type
Pornography is a theatre of types, never of individuals. Susan Sontag
theatre picnics ants
I am a critic - as essential to the theatre as ants to a picnic. Joseph L. Mankiewicz
theatre directors excitement
There are a few directors around who I have some excitement about spending my $7 at the theatre watching their movies. Sean Penn
theatre trouble casts
If you cast wrong, you are in a lot of trouble. Paul Mazursky
theatre watches film
The best conversation with Stanley Kubrick is a silent one: you sit in a theatre and watch his films and you learn so much. Peter Weir
theatre crafts made
Belonging to the Dramatists Guild Council where, with my fellow dramatists, I can directly affect (and protect) the professional lives of all American Playwrights has always made me feel that I am returning as much to the theatre as I withdraw. Because only playwrights can ensure the well-being of playwrights. No one else will do it for us. Peter Stone
theatre film periods
Films take up so much time, and with theatre, you do have to plan a period of time that you can be free. Mike Figgis
theatre sadism kind
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. Moss Hart
theatre behavior theater
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 life-is entrances
Life is a theatre set in which there are but few practicable entrances. Victor Hugo
theatre tvs actors
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 moral action
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