Theatre is a weapon. For that reason it must be fought for. – Augusto Boal
Theatre is live content, and you can tell if you have worked your audience. – Om Puri
Chess and theatre often lead to madness. – Arrabal
I like the ephemeral thing about theatre, every performance is like a ghost – it’s there and then it’s gone. – Maggie Smith
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
I think the theatre is as essential to civilization as safe, pure water. – Vanessa Redgrave
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
The novel is more of a whisper, whereas the stage is a shout. – Robert Holman
The more personal, the more universal. – Gary Ballinger
The primary function of a theater is not to please itself, or even to please its audience. It is to serve talent. – Robert Brustein
Theatre demands different muscles and different aspects of one’s personality. – Victor Garber
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
Nothing in theatre has any meaning before or after. Meaning is now. – Peter Brook
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
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
Theater is dangerously open to repetition. It’s exciting when you hit on a new way. – Fiona Shaw
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
There are those who go to the theatre as they would go to a brothel. – Antonin Artaud
Coughing in the theater is not a respiratory ailment. It is criticism. – Alan Jay Lerner
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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