(278 quotes found)
“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
“What is a wife and what is a harlot? What is a church and what is a theatre? are they two and not one? Can they exist separate? Are not religion and politics the same thing? Brotherhood is religion. O demonstrations of reason dividing families in cruelty and pride!”
William Blake
“In the theatre the audience want to be surprised - but by things that they expect.”
Tristan Bernard
“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
“Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths pure theatre.”
Gail Godwin
“Unless the theatre can ennoble you, make you a better person, you should flee from it.”
Konstantin E. Tsiolkovsky
“The truth, the absolute truth, is that the chief beauty for the theatre consists in fine bodily proportions.”
Sarah Bernhardt
“As in a theatre, the eyes of men, after a well-graced actor leaves the stage, are idly bent on him that enters next.”
William Shakespeare
