“In the theatre the audience want to be surprised - but by things that they expect.”
Tristan Bernard
“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
“The truth, the absolute truth, is that the chief beauty for the theatre consists in fine bodily proportions.”
Sarah Bernhardt
“Now I'm seen by more people in one episode than I was in 20 years of theatre and movies. It's gratifying to have an impact on 25 million people a night, but I can say goodbye to my lunch-pail life as a working actor. I'm scared I might be a celebrity.”
William Petersen
“Men are not suffering from the lack of good literature, good art, good theatre, good music, but from that which has made it impossible for these to become manifest. In short, they are suffering from the silent shameful conspiracy (the more shameful since it is unacknowledged) which has bound them together as enemies of art and artists.”
Henry Miller
