T Quotes
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“The theater needs continual reminders that there is nothing more debasing than the work of those who do well what is not worth doing at all.”
Source: Sex, Death, and Money
“The theater of the mind is impossible to compete with, and I like the idea that with a few suggestions, each reader forms in his or her own mind what a character or a place looks like.”
“The theater requires an essential gullibility that you can't get through life without having. If all you can feel is skepticism-well , you meet people like this. Run away from them. They're not good people.”
“The theater should always be a safe space.”
“the theater should be free to the people just as the Public Library is free, just as the museum is free. ... I want the theater to be made accessible to the people.”
“The theater troubled her. It had a magic of its own, one that didn’t belong to her, one that wasn’t in her control. It changed the world, and said things were otherwise than they were. And it was worse than that. It was magic that didn’t belong to magical people. It was commanded by ordinary people, who didn’t know the rules. They altered the world because it sounded better.”
Source: Wyrd Sisters: (Discworld Novel 6)
“The theater used to be a place where you look like a human being. Now people look like they just got out of bed.”
“The theater was my first training ground. It taught me discipline, dedication and appreciation of hard work.”
“The theater was my mother and my father.”
“The theater's a live thing, and film is, to some extent, a discipline where you're putting everything together and trying to execute something exactly. You do it away from people and then you present it at the end.”
“The theater's been very good to me and I became Julie Halston through the theater.”
“The theater, bringing impersonal masks to life, is only for those who are virile enough to create new life: either as a conflict of passions subtler than those we already know, or as a complete new character.”
Source: Selected works: Edited by Roger Shattuck and Simon Watson Taylor
“The theater, for all its artifices, depicts life in a sense more truly than history.”
Source: The Essential Santayana: Selected Writings
“The theater, when it is potent enough to deserve its ancestry, is always dangerous; that is why it is instinctively feared by people who do not want change, but only preservation of the status quo.”
“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.”
“The theatre and traveling through my modeling jobs, all of those experiences have helped a lot actually.”
“The theatre breeds its own kind of cruelty, and its sadism takes on a keener edge since it can be enjoyed under the innocent guise of critical judgment.”
Source: act one
“The theatre for me is much more satisfying as an actor because you are working in front of a living, breathing, throbbing, gasping, laughing and hopefully applauding audience. And the immediate connection you get with that audience is very satisfying.”
“The theatre has always been to me a place where beautiful lies are told, and playwrighting the orchestration of platitudes around a central flaw in logic or a ridiculous idea. Acting — the disguise and impersonation — is an art of deception.”
“The theatre has built a whole art round the actor, based on the man and his double - the actor and his character.”
“The theatre infects the audience with its noble ecstasy.”
“The theatre is a gross art, built in sweeps and over-emphasis. Compromise is its second name.”
“The theatre is a machine of transformations: everything is transformed into another thing; a bald man has thick hair on his head; a man with strong legs gains a limp and a sharp-eyed person becomes blind; an actor who is an atheist immediately turns into the most pious priest on earth! ~”
Source: William Shakespeare
“The theatre is a place where one has time for the problems of people to whom one would show the door if they came to one's office for a job.”
Source: Notebooks
“The theatre is a spiritual and social X-ray of its time.”
Source: Stella Adler - The Art of Acting: preface by Marlon Brando compiled & edited by Howard Kissel
“The theatre is a tragic place, full of endings and partings and heartbreak. You dedicate yourself passionately to something, to a project, to people, to a family, you think of nothing else for weeks and months, then suddenly it's over, it's perpetual destruction, perpetual divorce, perpetual adieu. It's like éternel retour, it's a koan. It's like falling in love and being smashed over and over again.’
'You do, then, fall in love.’
'Only with fictions, I love players, but actors are so ephemeral. And then there’s waiting for the perfect part, and being offered it the day after you've committed yourself to something utterly rotten. The remorse, and the envy and the jealousy. An old actor told me if I wanted to stay in the trade I had better kill off envy and jealousy at the start.”
Source: The Green Knight
“The theatre is a tragic place, full of endings and partings and heartbreak.”
Source: The Green Knight
“The theatre is certainly a place for learning about the brevity of human glory: oh all those wonderful glittering absolutely vanished pantomime! Now I shall abjure magic and become a hermit : put myself in a situation where I can honestly say that I have nothing else to do but to learn to be good.”
“The theatre is my drug. And my illness is so far advanced that my physic must be of the highest quality.”
“The theatre is not the place for the musician. When the curtain is up the music interrupts the actor, and when it is down the music interrupts the audience.”
“The theatre is supremely fitted to say: 'Behold! These things are.' Yet most dramatists employ it to say: 'This moral truth can be learned from beholding this action.'”
Source: Conversations with Thornton Wilder
“The theatre is the best way of showing the gap between what is said and what is seen to be done, and that is why, ragged and gap-toothed as it is, it has still a far healthier potential than some poorer, abandoned arts.”
“The theatre is the involuntary reflex of the ideas of the crowd.”
“The Theatre of Cruelty has been created in order to restore to the theatre a passionate and convulsive conception of life, and it is in this sense of violent rigour and extreme condensation of scenic elements that the cruelty on which it is based must be understood. This cruelty, which will be bloody when necessary but not systematically so, can thus be identified with a kind of severe moral purity which is not afraid to pay life the price it must be paid.”
Source: The Theater and Its Double
“The Theatre of the Absurd ... can be seen as the reflection of what seems to be the attitude most genuinely representative of our own time.  The hallmark of this attitude is its sense that the certitudes and unshakable basic assumptions of former ages have been swept away, that they have been tested and found wanting, that they have been discredited as cheap and somewhat childish illusions.”
“The Theatre of the Absurd has renounced arguing about the absurdity of the human condition; it merely presents it in being - that is, in terms of concrete stage images. This is the difference between the approach of the philosopher and that of the poet; the difference, to take an example from another sphere, between the idea of God in the works of Thomas Aquinas or Spinoza and the intuition of God in those of St. John of the Cross or Meister Eckhart - the difference between theory and experience.”
Source: The Theatre of the Absurd
“The Theatre of the Absurd is a theatrical embodiment and manifestation of existentialism. It is part reality and part nightmare”
“The Theatre of the Oppressed is theatre in this most archaic application of the word. In this usage, all human beings are Actors (they act!) and Spectators (they observe!).”
Source: Games for Actors and Non-Actors
“The theatre should be treated with respect. The theatre is a wonderful place, a house of strange enchantment, a temple of illusion. What it most emphatically is not and never will be is a scruffy, ill-lit, fumed-oak drill hall serving as a temporary soap box for political propaganda.”
“The theatre, for all its artifices, depicts life in a sense more truly than history, because the medium has a kindred movement to that of real life, though an artificial setting and form.”
Source: The Essential Santayana: Selected Writings
“The theatre, like the fresco, is art fitted to its place. And therefore it is above all else the human art, the living art.”
Source: John Christopher: Journey's end
“The theatre, our theatre, comes from the Greeks”
“The theatre, when all is said and done, is not life in miniature, but life enormously magnified, life hideously exaggerated.”
Source: H.L. Mencken: Prejudices: First, Second, and Third Series
“The theatre, which is my most comfortable place, unfortunately it's very hard to make a living in.”
“The theatre-acting, creating, interpreting - means total involvement, the totality of heart, mind and spirit.”
“The theft of brown women's narratives is not only an injustice placed on them, but also one extended to their male counterparts; by insisting they need to be liberated from their 'barbaric' civilization, Laura [Bush] summoned the colonial assertion that brown women need saving from brown men, when, in actuality, brown women have suffered at the hands of white men more than at those of any other oppressor in history.”
Source: Muslim Girl: A Coming of Age Story
“The theft potentially of data does create this image of sort of cloak and dagger politics that we sort of imagine when we think of underhanded politics.”
“The thegn who deems an unjust doom is to lose his thegnship. It is a principle which can be widely applied”
Source: A Short History of English Law: From the Earliest Times to the End of the Year 1919
“The theist and the scientist are rival interpreters of nature, the one retreats as the other advances.”
“The theist can only find meaning by leaving this life for a transcendental world beyond the grave. The human world as he finds it is empty of 'ultimate purpose' and hence meaningless. Theism thus is an attempt to escape from the human condition; it is a pathetic deceit.”
Source: Toward a New Enlightenment: The Philosophy of Paul Kurtz