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Theatre is a weapon. For that reason it must be fought for.
– Augusto Boal

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Theatre is live content, and you can tell if you have worked your audience.
– Om Puri

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Chess and theatre often lead to madness.
– Arrabal

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I like the ephemeral thing about theatre, every performance is like a ghost – it’s there and then it’s gone.
– Maggie Smith

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The theatre is not the place for the musician. When the curtain is up the music interrupts the actor, and when it is down the music interrupts the audience.
– Arthur Sullivan

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I think the theatre is as essential to civilization as safe, pure water.
– Vanessa Redgrave

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Once you do a piece on the stage, you become that poem or you become that piece. That’s really who you are. I think that’s why some artists have stage names, you know- I don’t have a stage name, it’s pretty much just me.
– Clinton D. Powell

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The novel is more of a whisper, whereas the stage is a shout.
– Robert Holman

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The more personal, the more universal.
– Gary Ballinger

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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

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Theatre demands different muscles and different aspects of one’s personality.
– Victor Garber

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No theater could sanely flourish until there was an umbilical connection between what was happening on the stage and what was happening in the world.
– Kenneth Tynan

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Nothing in theatre has any meaning before or after. Meaning is now.
– Peter Brook

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In theater, the wellspring of the character comes from the doing of it, like a trial by fire, but in front of an audience.
– Estelle Parsons

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The true theater, because it moves and makes use of living instruments, continues to stir up shadows where life has never ceased to grope its way.
– Antonin Artaud

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Theater is dangerously open to repetition. It’s exciting when you hit on a new way.
– Fiona Shaw

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I definitely think that theatre is something I’ll keep coming back to in my career for as long as I can. I also think theatre’s something you have to be very fit to do. I am fairly fit, but I don’t think I could do it all the time.
– Daniel Radcliffe

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There are those who go to the theatre as they would go to a brothel.
– Antonin Artaud

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Coughing in the theater is not a respiratory ailment. It is criticism.
– Alan Jay Lerner

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It isn’t a shortage of good scripts that ails the theater; it is a shortage of producers who know a good script when they see one.
– George Jean Nathan

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