“Film is fragmented and gets into lots of other people's hands. There are a lot of pleasures that theatre gives me. You get to perform uninterrupted.”
Willem Dafoe
“I've derived a lot of pleasure and education from the theatre. It's great when audiences really enjoy it. It's part of my life.”
Mike Leigh
“What I love about theatre is that it disappears as it happens.”
Lusia Strus
“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
“I like the ephemeral thing about theatre, every performance is like a ghost - it's there and then it's gone.”
Maggie Smith
“Free speech means the right to shout 'theatre' in a crowded fire.”
Abbie Hoffman
“The truth, the absolute truth, is that the chief beauty for the theatre consists in fine bodily proportions.”
Sarah Bernhardt
