“ The place, with its gray sky and withered garlands, its bared spaces and scattered dead leaves, was like a theater after the performance — all strewn with crumpled playbills. ”
- Henry James- Copy
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“ In the theater, while you recognized that you were looking at a house, it was a house in quotation marks. On screen, the quotation marks tend to be blotted out by the camera. ”
- Arthur Miller- Copy
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“ The primary function of a theater is not to please itself, or even to please its audience. It is to serve talent. ”
- Robert Brustein- Copy
- 3.4K
“ The theater needs continual reminders that there is nothing more debasing than the work of those who do well what is not worth doing at all. ”
- Gore Vidal- Copy
- 3.1K
“ Theater people are always pining and agonizing because they're afraid that they'll be forgotten. And in America they're quite right. They will be. ”
- Agnes de Mille- Copy
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“ 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. ”
- Laurence Olivier- Copy
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“ I don't take the movies seriously, and anyone who does is in for a headache. ”
- Bette Davis- Copy
- 3.2K
“ In a good play every speech should be as fully flavored as a nut or apple. ”
- J. M. Synge- Copy
- 3.8K
“ The theatre is supremely fitted to say: "Behold! These things are." Yet most dramatists employ it to say: "This moral truth can be learned from beholding this action.". ”
- Thornton Wilder- Copy
- 3.8K
“ I was not in favor of him uttering the line in the first place. But it was extremely good theater. ”
- Richard Darman- Copy
- 1.5K
“ One of my chief regrets during my years in the theater is that I couldn't sit in the audience and watch me. ”
- John Barrymore- Copy
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“ The theater, which is in no thing, but makes use of everything — gestures, sounds, words, screams, light, darkness — rediscovers itself at precisely the point where the mind requires a language to express its manifestations. To break through language in order to touch life is to create or recreate the theatre. ”
- Antonin Artaud- Copy
- 1.9K
“ The last thing in the world I should have done was go into the theater because was inordinately shy as a young man. I couldn't open my mouth. At a party, I was the one stuck up against the wall. I was embarrassed about talking. I felt that I couldn't talk well. ”
- Gale Gordon- Copy
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“ Theater of cruelty means a theater difficult and cruel for myself first of all. And, on the level of performance, it is not the cruelty we can exercise upon each other by hacking at each other's bodies, carving up our personal anatomies, or, like Assyrian emperors, sending parcels of human ears, noses, or neatly detached nostrils through the mail, but the much more terrible and necessary cruelty which things can exercise against us… ”
- Antonin Artaud- Copy
- 1K
“ A talent for drama is not a talent for writing, but is an ability to articulate human relationships. ”
- Gore Vidal- Copy
- 2.7K
“ A good film is when the price of the dinner, the theatre admission and the babysitter were worth it. ”
- Alfred Hitchcock- Copy
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“ My playground was the theatre. I'd sit and watch my mother pretend for a living. As a young girl, that's pretty seductive. ”
- Gwyneth Paltrow- Copy
- 1.5K
“ In a drama of the highest order there is little food for censure or hatred; it teaches rather self-knowledge and self-respect. ”
- Percy Bysshe Shelley- Copy
- 3.4K
“ I submit all my plays to the National Theatre for rejection. To assure myself I am seeing clearly. ”
- Howard Barker- Copy
- 79
“ 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. ”
- George Santayana- Copy
- 503
“ In the theater the audience wants to be surprised but by things that they expect. ”
- Tristan Bernard- Copy
- 555
“ The stage is not merely the meeting place of all the arts, but is also the return of art to life. ”
- Oscar Wilde- Copy
- 1.8K
“ The virtue of dress rehearsals is that they are a free show for a select group of artists and friends of the author, and where for one unique evening the audience is almost expurgated of idiots. ”
- Alfred Jarry- Copy
- 2.9K
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