Theatre Quotes - Page 2

The entire universe is a great theatre of mirrors.

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

We need a type of theatre which not only releases the feelings, insights and impulses possible within the particular historical field of human relations in which the action takes place, but employs and encourages those thoughts and feelings which help transform the field itself.

The History of the world is not the theatre of happiness. Periods of happiness are blank pages in it, for they are periods of harmony--periods when the antithesis is in abeyance.

Theatre is the most perfect artistic form of coercion.

Theatre is a weapon. For that reason it must be fought for.

I hate the word 'production'...it's a ceremony, it's a ritual...you should go out of the theatre stronger and more human than when you went in.

A drama critic is a person who surprises the playwright by informing him what he meant.

Everyone can act. Everyone can improvise. Anyone who wishes to can play in the theatre.

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.

My plan is to have a theatre in some small town or something and I'll be manager. Ill be the crazy old movie guy.

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.

Good theatre draws the energies out of the place where it is and gives it back as joie de vivre.

A young Brit girl with no theatre experience decided to take on an iconic American role on Broadway. Maybe I should have thought that through?

Theater is, of course, a reflection of life. Maybe we have to improve life before we can hope to improve theater.

I want to burn with the spirit of the times. I want all servants of the stage to recognize their lofty destiny. I am disturbed at my comrades' failure to rise above narrow caste interests which are alien to the interests of society at large. Yes, the theatre can play an enormous part in the transformation of the whole of existence.

Acting is half shame, half glory. Shame at exhibiting yourself, glory when you can forget yourself.

I like the ephemeral thing about theatre, every performance is like a ghost - it's there and then it's gone.

You know obviously a big TV or film break would be lovely, but I find that I’m essentially a theatre trained actor and that’s what I love doing. I love fringe theatres in London, I love theatres like the Royal Court, Soho and the National obviously and if I could work in any of those and be a jobbing actor for a while then I’m very lucky.

Theatre has no national identity. It is something for the world, whether it is Irish, English, or French.

I feel like I've been marinated in Australian theatre.

The good die young but not always. The wicked prevail but not consistently. I am confused by life, and I feel safe within the confines of the theatre.

To break through language in order to touch life is to create or re-create the theater.

Movies will make you famous; Television will make you rich; But theatre will make you good.

The fantastic thing about the theatre is that it can make something be seen that's invisible, and that's where my interest in theatre is- that you can be watching this thing happening with actors and costumes and light and set and language, and even plot, and something emerges from beyond that, and that's the image part that I'm looking for, that sort of added dimension.