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
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 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
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
Chess and theatre often lead to madness. – Arrabal
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
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
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 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
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
Good drama must be drastic. – Karl Wilhelm Friedrich von Schlegel
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