Famous Quotes & Sayings

Thomas Browne

The noblest Digladiation is in the Theatre of ourselves.

Robert Plant

Theatres are built because they were the boards for entertainment.

Sarah Sutton

I do still like television very much, but the theatre does really have something special about it.

Sarah Sutton

I'd like to do some more classical work if I do some more theatre.

Robert Ashley

I was interested in opera and it seemed to me that the only possible theatre for contemporary opera would be television. So I started working towards a kind of television kind of opera.

Rudyard Kipling

Keep your head when all about you are losing theirs and blaming it on you.

Saffron Burrows

Once you get into your stride, the camera becomes like another person in the room. It's like being in a very small theatre where there is no getting away with anything because the audience is centimetres away from you.

Robertson Davies

This is the Great Theatre of Life. Admission is free, but the taxation is mortal. You come when you can, and leave when you must. The show is continuous. Goodnight.

Vladimir Mayakovsky

I understand the power and the alarm of words - Not those that they applaud from theatre-boxes, but those which make coffins break from bearers and on their four oak legs walk right away.

William Congreve

How hard a thing 'twould be to please you all.

Valorie Curry

I grew up performing in theatre.

Vladimir Putin

Our intention is to develop music, theatre and exhibition activities on the Far Eastern regions.

Vladimir Putin

I trust Angela Merkel, she is a very open person. She is also subject to certain constraints and limitations. But she is honestly trying to settle the crisis, also in the south-east of Ukraine. However, what the European Union is doing with those sanctions is nothing but a theatre of the absurd.

Thomas Heywood

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

Victor Garber

You can only do so much theatre.

Harriet Walter

I came up almost completely through the subsidised theatre. I have never been absolutely at the market interface, where I've got to sell my wares or die - I've always been protected from that.

Jeremy Bulloch

I hope to continue working in film, television and theatre.

James A. Baldwin

Being in the pulpit, was like being in the theatre; I was behind the scenes and knew how the illusion worked.

Christopher Lee

Lon Chaney and Boris Karloff didn't like the word 'horror'. They, like I, went for the French description: 'the theatre of the fantastique'.

Jeff Brooks

If you need to raise funds from donors, you need to study them, respect them, and build everything you do around them.

Howard Barker

I am so far as I am aware not at all influenced by dramatists, expect for Shakespeare, who I have to say, it is impossible not to be influenced by if you hold language to be the major element of theatre.

Gore Vidal

The theater needs continual reminders that there is nothing more debasing than the work of those who do well what is not worth doing at all.

Franz Liszt

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

Christine Jones

I have a large personal collection of pictures. For every project, I choose images. Usually I don't do this until I've done an extensive script breakdown and distilled the text down to poetic form. I have to plant enough seeds so that there will be vibration.

Eve Ensler

If the theatre has taught me anything, it's that when things change in the body, in the body politic, in the body of the world, in the body of the earth, in the body of the person, there's change. You never go back.

Fiona Shaw

I loathe bad theater and most theatre is very bad because its repetitious, unexciting and, dangerously, it is sometimes praised for those things.

Cate Blanchett

I've reprised roles in the theatre, which is somehow more accepted, and where one can automatically go deeper and further into the role.

Ewan McGregor

I trained in the theatre and I love the theatre. I get such a thrill seeing anything in the theatre.

Keeley Hawes

There's nowhere to hide in the theatre. You can't be the one in rehearsal who doesn't know their lines.

Ken Stott

There are many actors who'll make their living in other areas, and they'll say they don't like theatre. What they're saying is that they're afraid of theatre because they know it will separate those who can from those who can't.

Iris Murdoch

The theatre is a tragic place, full of endings and partings and heartbreak.

Harry Melling

I am auditioning again - getting back to theatre would be amazing.

H. L. Mencken

The theatre, when all is said and done, is not life in miniature, but life enormously magnified, life hideously exaggerated.