Theatre Quotes - Page 4

The Actor should make you forget the existence of author and director, and even forget the actor.

What I love about theatre is that it disappears as it happens.

You need three things in the theatre - the play, the actors and the audience, and each must give something.

If politics is the art of the possible, theatre is the art of the impossible.

It is brilliant going to the theatre and being forced to sit and listen and think about life. It can be almost a near-religious experience.

Theatre demands different muscles and different aspects of one's personality.

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.

It's not enough to have talent. You have to have a talent for your talent.

I love the stage, I love the process of acting in theatre, but unfortunately, it doesn't pay the bills.

The strange power of art is sometimes it can show that what people have in common is more urgent than what differentiates them. It seems to me it's something that theatre can do, but it's rare; it's very rare.

I did an A Level in Theatre Studies and had a really inspirational teacher, and then I just went on to university.

I think film and television are really a director's medium, whereas theatre is the actor's medium.

Artaud sought to remove aesthetic distance, bringing the audience into direct contact with the dangers of life. By turning theatre into a place where the spectator is exposed rather than protected, Artaud was committing an act of cruelty upon them.

Act well your part, there all the honour lies.

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

The basic essential of a great actor is that he loves himself in acting.

The most beautiful thing I have ever seen in a movie theatre is to go down to the front and turn around, and look at all the uplifted faces, the light from the screen reflected upon them.

When I come into the theatre I get a sense of security. I love an audience. I love people, and I act because I like trying to give pleasure to people.

She lowered her lashes until they almost cuddled her cheeks and slowly raised them again, like a theatre curtain. I was to get to know that trick. That was supposed to make me roll over on my back with all four paws in the air.

There is no more reason for a room on a stage to be a reproduction of an actual room than for an actor who plays the part of Napoleon to be Napoleon, or for an actor who plays Death in the old morality play to be dead.

I want to give the audience a hint of a scene. No more than that. Give them too much and they won't contribute anything themselves. Give them just a suggestion and you get them working with you. That's what gives the theater meaning: when it becomes a social act.

There are two impulses in theatre: to be frivolous or to make rules.

I will accept anything in the theatre . . . provided it amuses or moves me. But if it does neither, I want to go home.

Theatre for a New Audience is one of America's most admirable and exciting theatre companites...some of the best acted and directed work to be found on American stages, engaging with the canon of world dramatic literature in a vigorous way.

The actor creates with his own flesh and blood all those things which all the arts try in some way to describe.