Theatre demands different muscles and different aspects of one’s personality. – Victor Garber
The theatre is a tragic place, full of endings and partings and heartbreak. You dedicate yourself passionately to something, to a project, to people, to a family, you think of nothing else for weeks and months, then suddenly it’s over, it’s perpetual destruction, perpetual divorce, perpetual adieu. – Iros Murdoch
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
If you want to help the American theater, don’t be an actress, be an audience. – Tallulah Bankhead
The theater is a humble materialist enterprise which seeks to produce riches of the imagination, not the other way around. The theater is an event, not an object. Theatre workers need not blush and conceal their desperate struggle to pay the landlords their rents. Theater without the stink of art. – Charles Ludlam
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
There are those who go to the theatre as they would go to a brothel. – Antonin Artaud
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 roles for women in theatre are much better than they are in film. – Kim Cattrall
The primary function of a theater is not to please itself, or even to please its audience. It is to serve talent. – Robert Brustein
In the theater, characters have to cut the umbilical cord from the writer and talk in their own voices. – Irwin Shaw
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
Chess and theatre often lead to madness. – Arrabal
Nothing in theatre has any meaning before or after. Meaning is now. – Peter Brook
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
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
Coughing in the theater is not a respiratory ailment. It is criticism. – Alan Jay Lerner
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