It was only in the theatre that I lived. – Oscar Wilde
Of course we all come to the theatre with baggage. The baggage of our daily lives, the baggage of our problems, the baggage of our tragedies, the baggage of being tired. It doesn’t matter what age you are. But if our hearts get opened and released – well that is what theatre can do, and does sometimes, and everyone is thankful when that happens. – Vanessa Redgrave
The word theatre comes from the Greeks. It means the seeing place. It is the place people come to see the truth about life and the social situation. The theatre is a spiritual and social X-ray of its time. The theatre was created to tell people the truth about life and the social situation. – Stella Adler
The theatre is a place where one has time for the problems of people to whom one would show the door if they came to one’s office for a job. – Tennessee Williams
The world’s a theatre, the earth a stage, Which God and nature do with actors fill. – John Heywood
Acting is a sport. On stage you must be ready to move like a tennis player on his toes. Your concentration must be keen, your reflexes sharp; your body and mind are in top gear, the chase is on. Acting is energy. In the theatre people pay to see energy. – Clive Swift
It is a hopeless endeavor to attract people to a theatre unless they can be first brought to believe that they will never get in. – Charles Dickens
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. – Helen Hayes
The theatre, when all is said and done, is not life in miniature, but life enormously magnified, life hideously exaggerated. – H. L. Mencken
You need three things in the theatre – the play, the actors and the audience, and each must give something. – Kenneth Haigh
I think the theatre is as essential to civilization as safe, pure water. – Vanessa Redgrave
All the best performers bring to their role something more, something different than what the author put on paper. That’s what makes theatre live. That’s why it persists. – Stephen Sondheim
The most effective moments in the theatre are those that appeal to basic and commonplace emotions-love of woman, love of home, love of country, love of right, anger, jealousy, revenge, ambition, lust, and treachery. – Clayton Hamilton
The theatre is traditionally where people go to hear the truth. – David Mamet
Theatre is a sacred space for actors. You are responsible; you are in the driving-seat. – Greta Scacchi
My only regret in the theater is that I could never sit out front and watch me. – John Barrymore
The novel is more of a whisper, whereas the stage is a shout. – Robert Holman
The more personal, the more universal. – Gary Ballinger
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
To enter a theatre for a performance is to be inducted into a magical space, to be ushered into the sacred arena of the imagination. – Simon Callow
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