Theatre Quotes - Page 10

Never get caught acting.

Lighting is not about function. It's much more about the mood and the emotion that the playwright and the director are trying to create. Our job is to support their poetic direction.

Theatre takes place all the time - wherever one is - and art simply facilitates persuading one this is the case.

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

The theatre, for all its artifices, depicts life in a sense more truly than history, because the medium has a kindred movement to that of real life, though an artificial setting and form.

The theater has to impose itself on the public, and not the public on the theater... The word "Art" should be written everywhere, in the auditorium and in the dressing rooms, before the word "Business" gets written there.

I've done everything in the theatre except marry a property man.

The theatre is a gross art, built in sweeps and over-emphasis. Compromise is its second name.

Pray to God and say the lines.

To be a character who feels a deep emotion, one must go into the memory's vault and mix in a sad memory from one's own life.

Actors are the only honest hypocrites.

Some mystery should be left in the revelation of character in a play, just as a great deal of mystery is always left in the revelation of character in life, even in one's own character to himself.

Life in the theatre isn't necessarily when you get money from performing. It isn't when you sign a contract. It isn't even when you are in a play. It's when you understand it. If you understand it, you'll know why you want to act.

Speech is the mirror of action.

Normally when people ask me what I do I say I'm an actor, and that's what I always wanted to be and that's the way I approach work even when I'm directing it.

Every time I make, I've made a piece of work, I've wanted to get rid of it, obliterate it and do the next thing, because it was never quite what I wanted. I think the moment you think you've arrived is the moment that you should stop.

The only reality of the theater exists in the mind of the audience. That audience looks collectively at what is going on on the stage and collectively imagines that this is real.

Ultimately, theatre takes place in the minds of the audience: they all imagine the same thing at the same time.

January, month of empty pockets! let us endure this evil month, anxious as a theatrical producer's forehead.

In my opinion, Christian Dior was never, ever theatre.

One begins with two people on a stage, and one of them had better say something pretty quick.

In accordance with the foregoing investigations on mathematical principles, let bronze vessels be made, proportionate to the size of the theatre, and let them be so fashioned that, when touched, they may produce with one another the notes of the fourth, the fifth, and so on up the double octave.

Choosing to be in the theatre was a way to put my roots down somewhere with other people. It was a way to choose a new family.

I do not like the Broadway theatre because it does not know how to say hello. The tone of voice is false, the mannerisms are false, the sex is false, ideal, the Hollywood world of perfection, the clean image, the well pressed clothes, the well scrubbed anus, odorless, inhuman, of the Hollywood actor, the Broadway star. And the terrible false dirt of Broadway, the lower depths in which the dirt is imitated, inaccurate.

Auctions are bizarre combinations of slave market, trading floor, theatre and burlesque... a lot of people are going to be making a lot of excuses or maintaining that they were never part of this.