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
Acting touches nerves you have absolutely no control over. – Alan Rickman
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
It isn’t a shortage of good scripts that ails the theater; it is a shortage of producers who know a good script when they see one. – George Jean Nathan
Good drama must be drastic. – Karl Wilhelm Friedrich von Schlegel
In theater, the wellspring of the character comes from the doing of it, like a trial by fire, but in front of an audience. – Estelle Parsons
Theater is dangerously open to repetition. It’s exciting when you hit on a new way. – Fiona Shaw
The theater is a great equalizer: it is the only place where the poor can look down on the rich. – Will Rogers
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
A theater requires two good producers: one to produce the play, and the other to produce the cash. – Evan Esar
Long experience has taught me that in England nobody goes to the theatre unless he or she has bronchitis. – James agate
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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