The theatre, when all is said and done, is not life in miniature, but life enormously magnified, life hideously exaggerated. – H. L. Mencken
The theater is so endlessly fascinating because it’s so accidental. It’s so much like life. – Arthur Miller
The play was a great success, but the audience was a failure. – 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
It was only in the theatre that I lived. – Oscar Wilde
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
The world’s a theatre, the earth a stage, Which God and nature do with actors fill. – John Heywood
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 is traditionally where people go to hear the truth. – David Mamet
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 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
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
I like the ephemeral thing about theatre, every performance is like a ghost – it’s there and then it’s gone. – Maggie Smith
Ambushing the audience is what theatre is all about. – SirTom
There are those who go to the theatre as they would go to a brothel. – Antonin Artaud
Theatre is a sacred space for actors. You are responsible; you are in the driving-seat. – Greta Scacchi
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
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