Theatre Quotes

"If you want a bourgeois existence, you shouldn't be an actor. You're in the wrong profession."
-Uta Hagen

"This is the night to go to the theatre, like Abraham Lincoln."
-John F. Kennedy

"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

"It's great to be in a film that's able to have people really want to become socially conscious, to walk out of the theatre and want to do something."
-Don Cheadle

"I grew up in the theatre. It's where I got my start. Writing a television drama with theatrical dialogue about the theatre is beyond perfection."
-Aaron Sorkin

"Chicago is a great theatre town, with theatergoers that are both discerning but adventurous, ... I know that Spelling Bee will be right at home here, and I'm thrilled that the Drury Lane Theatre is available to us. It has just the right feeling of intimacy for this show."
-David Stone

"This was our first time to compete for one of these, so we feel very fortunate, ... And the people in the preservation program appeared to be very excited to be working with the Royal Theatre."
-Barbara Webb

"London theatre without Dan is unthinkable. He was the veins that kept the old King's Head theatre blood plasma flowing."
-Maureen Lipman

"You know how you always see the singer with her arms out in some big dramatic pose? You'll see [that] in this production. They're spoofing the traditions of musical theatre."
-Paula Mcglasson

"[Rivertown Repertory Theatre in Kenner came out ahead, too.] We were lucky, ... We had a little bit of roof and water damage and our awning blew off. That was it."
-Charlie Ward

"I am so far as I am aware not at all influenced by dramatists, expect for Shakespeare, who I have to say, it is impossible not to be influenced by if you hold language to be the major element of theatre."
-Howard Barker

"What drew me to Office Space was just doing something totally different. Almost theatre-like, completely over the top, a real departure from News Radio. I think I am conservative, not eccentric. I don't have any inhibitions about making a fool of myself, but you have to, to be in comedy."
-Stephen Root

"Free speech means the right to shout 'theatre' in a crowded fire."
-Abbie Hoffman

"The Rep will be the first new professional theatre to be constructed downtown. We see this expansion downtown as solidifying our position as a leader in the cultural, social and economic life of the city."
-Laura Muir

"[McNally's inspiration for the play came from the Manhattan Theatre Club who asked the playwright for a new work to mark the re-opening of the Biltmore Theatre, which had been derelict for 16 years.] It was so terrible a place, ... that people shuddered as they passed it. It's a miracle that it was left standing."
-Terrence Mcnally

"I know, I know the world wants love. I know that the fans want love on the air. Of course they do. They want love on the air as they want love in pictures, in the theatre, in novels and poems. And I want to give them love on the air - but not cheap love, not a low - class type of love."
-Nelson Eddy

"It was physically uncomfortable. It is hard to sit in the theatre and have people turning round and looking at you."
-Jerry Springer

"Movies are a unique art form, and for two hours you go the movie theatre to escape the outside world. I don't think it's fair to have to pay to watch commercials."
-Jason Thompson

"I dislike organized games, swimming pools, fashionable resorts, night clubs, music in restaurants, and political manifestoes; I enjoy driving from coast to coast, good food and drink, a few friends, dogs, the theatre, long walks, music and free conversation."
-James Hilton

"It's a big challenge theatrically. This play has probably two of the most difficult roles to play in American theatre due to the physicality of the play."
-Lon Pugh

"We would like some sort of parity in city funding that the National Black Theatre Festival has received, and we don't want our support to be at the expense of theirs."
-Dale Pollock

"Musical theatre is something I'm familiar with, I've been doing that."
-David Naughton

"At Target, we are making a real difference every day through our grant-making program. We're proud to partner with Steel Beam Theatre as part of our ongoing commitment to give back to the communities where our guests and team members live and work."
-Laysha Ward

"Even with six surgeons working there it was struggling to get that number because there is not enough theatre time to do the surgery."
-David Wood

"Was the most peaceful place on earth. There is something quite extraordinary about the theatre. On some nights - very rarely, and some people have never experienced it - actors say 'Pan's in.' Whatever anybody does, it works. Pan is sitting on your shoulders. He's with you. I had it a couple of times on Guys and Dolls. You just knew it was the business."
-Bob Hoskins

"The long-standing partnership between the Harold & Mimi Steinberg Charitable Trust and the American Theatre Critics Association has recognized some of today's greatest writers, and helped identify the great playwrights of tomorrow. We're delighted to help support the unique telling of tales on the American stage."
-Jim Steinberg

"He needs to know the actors have done lots of theatre ... made us quite nervous, actually."
-Michael Hurst

"I think the people in Business License need to get better guidance before they run into significant constitutional problems. We would be happy to represent the Little Theatre."
-Allen Lichtenstein