Theatre Quotes - Page 5

The theatre infects the audience with its noble ecstasy.

I have no intention of uttering my last words on the stage. Room service and a couple of depraved young women will do me quite nicely for an exit.

The more acute the experience, the less articulate its expression.

Sin is what is new, strong, surprising, strange. The theatre must take an interest in sin if the young are to be able to go there.

The logistic requirements for a large, elaborate mission to Mars are no greater that those for a minor military operation extending over a limited theatre of war.

There is only one necessary condition for the emergence of a new theatre, that the stage and auditorium should be open to the masses, should be able to contain a people and the actions of a people.

Acting in theatre or television or screen is only for the irrecoverably diseased, those so smitten with the need that there is no choice.

The Theatre of the Absurd is a theatrical embodiment and manifestation of existentialism. It is part reality and part nightmare

Use your weaknesses; aspire to the strength.

Acting is standing up naked and turning around very slowly.

There may be a time when we'll attend Weather Theaters to recall the sensation of rain.

Although one may fail to find happiness in theatrical life, one never wishes to give it up after having once tasted its fruits.

Theatre supposes lives that are poor and agitated, a people searching in dreams for a refuge from thought. If we were happier and freer we should not feel hungry for theatre. A people that is happy and free has need of festivities more than of theatres; it will always see in itself the finest spectacle.

The secret of staying fresh in a show is to remember that the audience you're playing for that night has never seen it before.

From the start it has been the theatre's business to entertain people ... it needs no other passport than fun.

As fascinated as I was by words on paper, it was matched by my fascination with words in people's mouths. The spoken word. And that is the world of theatre.

The film [Stalker] needs to be slower and duller at the start so that the viewers who walked into the wrong theatre have time to leave before the main action starts.

I'm really passionate about pantomime because it is often the first introduction for a child to theatre, and if that child has a great experience at a pantomime they will continue to come year after year.

Acting is experience with something sweet behind it.

Young actors, fear your admirers! Learn in time, from your first steps, to hear, understand and love the cruel truth about yourselves. Find out who can tell you that truth and talk of your art only with those who can tell you the truth.

Nothing is forever in the Theatre. Whatever it is, it's here, it flares up, burns hot and then its gone.

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.

Actors ought to be larger than life. You come across quite enough ordinary, nondescript people in daily life and I don't see why you should be subjected to them on the stage too.

Listen carefully to first criticisms made of your work. Note just what it is about your work that critics don't like - then cultivate it. That's the only part of your work that's individual and worth keeping.

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