The novel is more of a whisper, whereas the stage is a shout. – Robert Holman
To enter a theatre for a performance is to be inducted into a magical space, to be ushered into the sacred arena of the imagination. – Simon Callow
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
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
My only regret in the theater is that I could never sit out front and watch me. – John Barrymore
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 theater, which is in no thing, but makes use of everything – gestures, sounds, words, screams, light, darkness – rediscovers itself at precisely the point where the mind requires a language to express its manifestations. To break through language in order to touch life is to create or recreate the theatre. – Antonin Artaud
In the theater, characters have to cut the umbilical cord from the writer and talk in their own voices. – Irwin Shaw
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
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
Chess and theatre often lead to madness. – Arrabal
Nothing in theatre has any meaning before or after. Meaning is now. – Peter Brook
I have never regarded any theater as much more than the conclusion to a dinner or the prelude to a supper. – Max Beerbohm
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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