Theatre Quotes - Page 6

I'd like to be for cinema what Shakespeare was for theatre, Marx for politics and Freud for psychology: someone after whom nothing is as it used to be.

I was prepared for the theatre, but not for the nuts and bolts.

I personally would like to bring a tortoise onto the stage, turn it into a racehorse, then into a hat, a song, a dragoon and a fountain of water. One can dare anything in the theatre and it is the place where one dares the least.

A theatre, a literature, an artistic expression that does not speak for its own time has no relevance.

Theatre is a mirror, a sharp reflection of society. The greatest playwrights are moralists.

Great theatre is about challenging how we think and encouraging us to fantasize about a world we aspire to.

I think any classical training in the theatre is of enormous value.

My real training as an actor was when I started doing theatre.

Like the Bible, Stanislavsky's basic texts on acting can be quoted to any purpose.

The world was no doubt made, that it might be a theatre of the divine glory.

We are suffocated by writers who want to enlighten us with their truths. For me, the theatre is beautiful because it is a secret, and secrets seduce us, we all want to share secrets.

The word theatre comes from the Greeks. It means the seeing place.

Theatre artists are essentially sort of charlatans and thieves, I mean that's the tradition that we come from, so I have absolutely no, I make no bones about the fact that I steal from here and I take from there, and we all do it, that's perfectly all right, that's the nothing, there's nothing new in the world, there's nothing actually new in the way that you do something, but the point is is how do you take something and use it to articulate what is essentially a core of any given theatrical production.

I regard the theatre as the greatest of all art forms, the most immediate way in which a human being can share with another the sense of what it is to be a human being.

In fact, one was so booked out we went from March and were to go till November, but the pantomime was booked so they transferred the show to the Prince of Wales Theatre because it was so packed out, and it ran on from there.

Lead the audience by the nose to the thought.

I don't know what is better than the work that is given to the actor-to teach the human heart the knowledge of itself.

Anatomy is to physiology as geography is to history; it describes the theatre of events.

I had learned to have a perfect nausea for the theatre: the continual repetition of the same words and the same gestures, night after night, and the caprices, the way of looking at life, and the entire rigmarole disgusted me.

I received the most fantastic welcome to the Broadway Theatre community. I walked on stage to tremendous applause and a long standing ovation, wondering when I was ever going to be able to say my first line!

When I see someone filming me, I don't usually think, 'No, man, don't put this up online!' I'd think, 'Hey man, you don't get to go to shows very often, put down the camera and enjoy it!' I love going to theatre and to shows so much.

Growth as an actor and as a human being are synonymous.

It doesn't bother me. Sure, everybody wants approval, but I came from the theatre and I've always treasured a remark from there which goes: 'For every six people who love you, there will be half a dozen who loathe you.' The quality of an author's work is not usually determined until after his death. Even Dickens got some pretty bad reviews.

I believe that in a great city, or even in a small city or a village, a great theater is the outward and visible sign of an inward and probable culture.

Show me a congenital eavesdropper with the instincts of a Peeping Tom and I will show you the making of a dramatist.