Theatre Quotes | Sayings Celebrating Theatre Arts, Drama - Page 4

In the theater, characters have to cut the umbilical cord from the writer and talk in their own voices.
– Irwin Shaw

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

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Good drama must be drastic.
– Karl Wilhelm Friedrich von Schlegel

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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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It’s one of the tragic ironies of the theatre that only one man in it can count on steady work – the night watchman.
– Tallulah Bankhead

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Long experience has taught me that in England nobody goes to the theatre unless he or she has bronchitis.
– James agate

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I have never regarded any theater as much more than the conclusion to a dinner or the prelude to a supper.
– Max Beerbohm

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The theater is a great equalizer: it is the only place where the poor can look down on the rich.
– Will Rogers

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Actors already striving in the theatre wouldn’t dream of putting themselves on these shows; it means that only about 10% of the talent out there is being auditioned for parts.
– Elaine Paige

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Acting touches nerves you have absolutely no control over.
– Alan Rickman

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You need three things in the theatre – the play, the actors and the audience, and each must give something.
– Kenneth Haigh

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A theater requires two good producers: one to produce the play, and the other to produce the cash.
– Evan Esar

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Family is the theatre of the spiritual drama, the place where things happen, especially the things that matter.
– G.K. Chesterton

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