(278 quotes found)
“Free speech means the right to shout 'theatre' in a crowded fire.”
Abbie Hoffman
“I think theatre should always be somewhat suspect.”
Vaclav Havel
“Make them laugh, make them cry, and hack to laughter. What do people go to the theatre for? An emotional exercise. . . . I am a servant of the people. I have never forgotten that.”
Mary Pickford
“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
“This visible world is wonderfully to be delighted in, and highly to be esteemed, because it is the theatre of God's righteous Kingdom.”
Thomas Traherne
“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
“Pirates could happen to anyone.”
Tom Stoppard
“You don't merely give over your creativity to making a film -- you give over your life! In theatre, by contrast, you live these two rather strange lives simultaneously; you have no option but to confront the mould on last night's washing-up.”
Daniel Day-Lewis
“A good film is when the price of the dinner, the theatre admission and the babysitter were worth it.”
Alfred Hitchcock
“Dying is not romantic, and death is not a game which will soon be over... Death is not anything... death is not... It's the absence of presence, nothing more... the endless time of never coming back... a gap you can't see, and when the wind blows through it, it makes not sound...”
