Memorable Theatre Quotes

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"The theatre is the greatest of all art forms, because it is the most immediate."
Tennessee Williams
"The play is the thing."
William Shakespeare
"The magic of the theatre is that it's a collaborative art."
Stephen Sondheim
"Theatre should be a small space, a small community."
Tom Stoppard
"Theatre is a sacred space for the spirit of community."
Wendy Wasserstein
"It is the actors who keep us awake; it is the actors who live and breathe the theatre."
Edward Albee
"There is no business like show business."
Irving Berlin
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"To be a good actor, you have to be a good reader."
James Earl Jones
"The theatre is a place where you can cry and not feel ashamed."
Nicolas Roeg
"In every work of art the spirit of the age finds its expression."
Oscar Wilde
"Good theatre provides an experience that turns the viewer into a participant."
Maya Angelou
"Theatre is the most powerful weapon of the oppressed."
Augusto Boal
"Actors are one family. We all come from the same tree."
Gabriel Byrne
"The world is a stage, but the play is badly cast."
Oscar Wilde
"The aim of theatre is to make the world a better place."
Anthony Minghella
"Without the theatre, we are all lost."
Joan Didion
"Theatre is a form of ecstatic experience."
Peter Brook
"All art is a form of nonverbal communication."
David Mamet
"A good play is a good play at all times."
Arthur Miller
"Never underestimate the power of a great performance to change lives."
Hugh Jackman
"Theatre is the only place where you can be free."
Stephen Sondheim
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"To create a character is to take on a mask."
Jerzy Grotowski
"The play's the thing."
William Shakespeare
"To be, or not to be, that is the question."
William Shakespeare
"Theatre is so incredibly personal, and to a degree, it’s a reflection of who I am."
Bette Midler
"The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it."
Oscar Wilde
"The best way to keep one's word is not to give it."
Napoleon Bonaparte
"Life is a stage, and the play is badly cast."
Unknown
"Drama is the art of devising a plot to cause a rise in something unsaid."
Robert Brustein
"Good actors are the ones that are willing to step into the dark, and trust their instincts."
Matthew McConaughey
"The audience is the part of the theatre that is the most alive."
James Houghton
"Acting is not about being something you’re not. It’s about being the most you that you can be."
John Paul, H.
"There’s a fine line between a long, drawn-out story that bores people, and one that captivates them."
David Mamet
"The show must go on."
Unknown
"The theatre is a weapon; it is not a jewel, it is a hammer."
Bertolt Brecht
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"A good playwright can put in a whole lot of different emotions in a single play."
Lawrence Ferlinghetti
"Acting is like a game of poker; you take a risk to win."
Eli Wallach
"Every exit is an entry somewhere else."
Tom Stoppard
"There is nothing like a dream to create the future."
Victor Hugo
"The great secret of the theatre, and perhaps life, is to go on without pretending."
Unknown
"The role of the artist is to ask questions, not to answer them."
Terry Tempest Williams
"There’s magic in the theatre, and the audience knows it."
Bernard Pomerance
"Theatre is the most alive form of art."
Unknown
"Theatre is the art of making a point without making an enemy."
David Mamet
"All the world’s a stage, and all the men and women merely players."
William Shakespeare
"Acting is standing up naked and telling the audience to go screw themselves."
James Gandolfini
"Theatre is a journey into the depths of the human soul."
Anna Deavere Smith
"The play’s the thing."
William Shakespeare
"The best way to be boring is to leave nothing out."
Voltaire
"Good theater is not about 'truth'; it is about 'truthfulness.'"
David Mamet
"The theatre is a spiritual and metaphorical place."
Irina Dvorovenko
"The critic is a man who knows the way but can't drive the car."
Kenneth Tynan
"Theatre is the only place where you can be alone with your audience and still be with them."
Marcel Marceau
"Life is a theater, and I am the director."
Victor Hugo
"To find your own voice, you need to listen to the voices of others."
Simon Callow
"The audience is the final collaborator in the act of storytelling."
Simon McBurney
"Theater is a place where you can give up your troubles and let someone else deal with them for a couple of hours."
Robert Brustein
"Theatre is the only art form that cannot be premade."
Marin Theatre Company
"In the theatre, we have a saying that the show must go on."
Judy Garland
"Great art is not a matter of what you do, but how you do it."
Howard Ashman
"I think the best way to make a good play is by writing from your own experience."
Stephen Sondheim
"If it’s not fun, you’re not doing it right."
Marie Mullen
"A stage is not a place for despair but rather a place for celebration."
Edward Albee
"A good face they say, is a letter of recommendation."
Aeschylus
"Theatre is an act of exchange between performer and audience."
Anne Bogart
"When you’re in the theatre, it’s about being present in the moment."
John Lithgow
"Life is a theatre set in which there are but a few practicable roles."
Antonin Artaud
"The best plays are those that tell you what you already know."
David Mamet
"Act well your part; there all the honor lies."
Alexander Pope
"The only way to get rid of my fears is to make films about them."
Alfred Hitchcock
"To a great extent, the theatre is a place of loneliness."
Victor Hugo
"There are no small parts, only small actors."
Konstantin Stanislavski
"The actor should be able to create the universe in the palm of his hand."
Robert Wilson
"The theatre is a sacred space for actors. It is there that they can reflect their world and their life."
Joseph Chaikin
"Theatre is a mirror, a sharp reflection of society."
Richard Eyre
"Drama is life with the dull bits cut out."
Alfred Hitchcock
"A great play is a great play because it seems to embody the very experience of life itself."
T.S. Eliot
"You can’t really explain what theater is. It’s a fairy tale, it's magic."
James Lapine
"Theatre, the last bastion of hope, is a place where the soul can speak."
Simon McBurney
"To create a character is not easy; one must build a character that has depth, dimension, and soul."
Uta Hagen
"The stage is not a mirror; it is a window through which we see our lived experience."
Anna Deavere Smith
"Theatre is a verb before it is a noun."
Wendy Wasserstein
"Every play is about the human condition; it’s about what binds us together."
Stacy Keach
"In the theatre, we reach out for a moment and touch very different lives."
Lisa D'Amour
"In every job that must be done, there is an element of fun."
Mary Poppins
"The true purpose of drama is to bring the unknown into the light."
Tom Stoppard
"The theatre is the most exciting place in the world."
James Whales
"What we love about theatre is that it offers us a safe space to confront deep truths."
Anne Bogart
"All acting is a matter of choice."
David Mamet
"The theatre is a place where we can come together to share the human experience."
James C. Reilly
"All the world's a stage, and all the men and women merely players."
William Shakespeare
"To be or not to be, that is the question."
William Shakespeare
"The play's the thing wherein I'll catch the conscience of the King."
William Shakespeare
"Life is a theatre set in which there are but few practicable exits."
Victor Hugo
"The best plays are those which are the most authentic."
Robert Wilson
"Theatre is the art of looking at ourselves."
Augusto Boal
"The actor is a victim of his own imagination."
Marcel Marceau
"Theatre is a mirror of society."
W. Somerset Maugham
"Acting is a form of confession."
Tallulah Bankhead
"Drama is like a dream, it must be experienced by the dreamer."
Harold Pinter
"The theatre, the place where one laughs, weeps, and experiences life."
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
"The stage is a magic circle where only a certain kind of chaos is allowed."
Peter Brook
"The theatre is an act of faith."
J. B. Priestley
"Actors are the only people in the world who can be wretched in public."
Oscar Wilde
"There is no greater power than a community discovering what it cares about."
Margaret J. Wheatley
"The play is always better than the movie."
George C. Scott
"In the world of theatre, if you never take the risk, you will never know the reward."
Lin-Manuel Miranda
"The only thing worse than being talked about is not being talked about."
Oscar Wilde
"Every great dream begins with a dreamer."
Harriet Tubman
"Acting is behaving truthfully under imaginary circumstances."
Sanford Meisner
"The audience knows the actors are pretending, but they suspend their disbelief."
Tennessee Williams
"To create one's own world in any of the arts takes courage."
Georgia O'Keeffe
"Life is a cabaret, old chum!"
John Kander
"Art is the most beautiful of all lies."
Gustave Flaubert
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