(693 quotes found)
“The theater is so endlessly fascinating because it's so accidental. It's so much like life.”
Arthur Miller
“Do what you love to do and give it your very best. Whether it's business or baseball, or the theater, or any field. If you don't love what you're doing and you can't give it your best, get out of it. Life is too short. You'll be an old man before you know it.”
Al Lopez
“The world's a theater, the earth a stage, Which God and nature do with actors fill”
Proverb
“For a minute or perhaps two-and this is a long time-the theater makes man better and happier on this earth.”
Jean Jacques Gautier
“I'm the end of the line; absurd and appalling as it may seem, serious New York theater has died in my lifetime.”
“Architecture is a social act and the material theater of human activity.”
Spiro Kostof
“Theater is a verb before it is a noun, an act before it is a place.”
Martha Graham
“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
“We all know that the theater and every play that comes to Broadway have within themselves, like the human being, the seed of self-destruction and the certainty of death. The thing is to see how long the theater, the play, and the human being can last in spite of themselves.”
James Thurber
“What the American public wants in the theater is a tragedy with a happy ending.”
William Dean Howells
