“Unless the theatre can ennoble you, make you a better person, you should flee from it.”
Konstantin E. Tsiolkovsky
“I regard the theatre as the greatest of all art forms, the most immediate way in which a human being can share with another the sense of what it is to be a human being.”
Oscar Wilde
“What I love about theatre is that it disappears as it happens.”
Lusia Strus
“I like the ephemeral thing about theatre, every performance is like a ghost - it's there and then it's gone.”
Maggie Smith
“Theatre director: a person engaged by the management to conceal the fact that the players cannot act.”
James Agate
“I think theatre should always be somewhat suspect.”
Vaclav Havel
“A talented trumpeter who toots his own horn winds up playing to an empty theatre. A talented trumpeter who lets others recognize his talent winds up a legend.”
Lisa Edmondson
