Best Theatre Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings Page 18

Source: The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope: In Three Volumes Complete, with His Last Corrections, Additions, and Improvements, Together with All His Notes as They Were Delivered to the Editor a Little Before His Death

“Language has unmistakably made plain that memory is not an instrument for exploring the past but its theater. It is the medium of past experience, just as the earth is the medium in which dead cities lie buried.”

Past Lying Memories Cities Instruments Theatre Mediums Exploring Past Experiences

Author:Walter Benjamin

“I definitely think that theatre is something I'll keep coming back to in my career for as long as I can. I also think theatre's something you have to be very fit to do. I am fairly fit, but I don't think I could do it all the time.”

Thinking Long I Can Careers Fit Theatre Coming Back

Author:Daniel Radcliffe

“The real thing is, you should be seeing these plays in the Theatre. That's what they were written for. That's where the enjoyment is. Studying them is no enjoyment whatsoever.”

Should Real Play Study Written Seeing Theatre Enjoyment Real Things

Author:Tony Randall

“Many of the Universities have very good Theatre Departments these days.”

University Very Good Theatre These Days Department

Author:Tony Randall

“A lot of what acting is paying attention.”

Acting Attention Theatre Pay Attention

Author:Nancy Reagan

“Most of the competition was into bulk popcorn because of the major increases in the Drive-In Theatre Outlets.”

Majors Increase Competition Theatre Outlets Popcorn

Author:Orville Redenbacher

“Acting touches nerves you have absolutely no control over.”

Acting Theatre Nerves

Author:Alan Rickman

“You take a plug and put it in a socket, and that's what the theatre is-it lights up right away. You speak, and they respond immediately.”

Light Speak Theatre Light Up Plugs

Author:Chita Rivera

“The theatre is the involuntary reflex of the ideas of the crowd.”

Ideas Crowds Theatre Reflexes Involuntary

Author:Sarah Bernhardt

“For the theatre one needs long arms... an artiste with short arms can never make a fine gesture.”

Needs Long Arms Fine Theatre Gestures

Author:Sarah Bernhardt

“The truth, the absolute truth, is that the chief beauty for the theatre consists in fine bodily proportions.”

Fine Truth Is Absolutes Theatre Chiefs Proportion Absolute Truth

Book:The Art of the Theatre

Source: The Art of the Theatre

“Look at a football field. It looks like a big movie screen. This is theatre. Football combines the strategy of chess. It's part ballet. It's part battleground, part playground. We clarify, amplify and glorify the game with our footage, the narration and that music, and in the end create an inspirational piece of footage.”

Looks Ends Bigs Actors Games Pieces Fields Football Strategy Theatre Screens Chess Movie Ballet Glorify Playgrounds Big Movie Amplify Narration Football Field Battleground

Author:Steve Sabol

“The word theatre comes from the Greeks. It means the seeing place. It is the place people come to see the truth about life and the social situation.”

People Mean Social Acting Situation Seeing Theater Theatre Greek Best Acting Theatre Acting Method Acting Acting Teachers Truth About Life

Author:Stella Adler

“The theatre is a spiritual and social X-ray of its time.”

Spiritual Social Theatre Rays Theatre Acting Acting Teachers

Book:Stella Adler - The Art of Acting: preface by Marlon Brando compiled & edited by Howard Kissel

Source: Stella Adler - The Art of Acting: preface by Marlon Brando compiled & edited by Howard Kissel

“Theatre is a sacred space for actors. You are responsible; you are in the driving-seat.”

Actors Space Responsible Sacred Theatre Driving Seats Sacred Space

Author:Greta Scacchi

“With a theatre audience there's always the additional sense of a sustained challenge of which I'm acutely aware and for which you need to have the tools ready - your voice, physicality, brain.”

Needs Voice Challenges Brain Audience Ready Tools Theatre Physicality

Author:Greta Scacchi

“I did an internship at the Ardent theatre company in Philly after dropping out of college. I was earning $165 a week building sets and cleaning the toilets. Cleaning toilets is a good way of getting in touch with your creativity. That's when you find out if you got anything going on in your head.”

Ifs Way Company Creativity Week Building College Theatre Earning Cleaning Toilets Dropping Good Way Ardent Dropping Out Internships

Author:Jill Scott

“Every writer is a frustrated actor who recites his lines in the hidden auditorium of his skull.”

Writing Actors Lines Acting Theatre Frustration Frustrated Skulls Twilight Zone Auditoriums Being Frustrated Skull And Bones

Author:Rod Serling

“I did theatre when I was nine, I think. Nine and ten, and that was just the beginning of my whole involvement in acting, my whole interest. I don't really remember it that well. But it was really fun. I mean, it was exciting just to be on stage in front of an audience. It gives you a different kind of rush.”

Thinking Giving Wells Kind Mean Different Whole Remember Fun Interest Acting Audience Stage Fronts Ten Exciting Theatre Nine Different Kinds Involvement

Author:Amanda Seyfried

“All the world's a stage, and all the men and women merely players: they have their exits and their entrances; and one man in his time plays many parts, his acts being seven ages.”

“You use a glass mirror to see your face; you use works of art to see your soul.”

Art Soul Use Beautiful Faces Beauty Mirrors Glasses Theatre Your Soul Works Of Art Your Face Aesthetic Methuselah

Book:The Collected Works of George Bernard Shaw: Plays, Novels, Articles, Lectures, Letters and Essays: Pygmalion, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Candida, Arms and The Man, Man and Superman, Caesar and Cleopatra, Androcles And The Lion, The New York Times Articles on War, Memories of Oscar Wilde and more

Source: The Collected Works of George Bernard Shaw: Plays, Novels, Articles, Lectures, Letters and Essays: Pygmalion, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Candida, Arms and The Man, Man and Superman, Caesar and Cleopatra, Androcles And The Lion, The New York Times Articles on War, Memories of Oscar Wilde and more

“Despite a large body of work in films, TV, theatre and concerts, I am viewed by many as a Jewish artist. I do not resent the label, except for the fact that I disapprove of labels in general.”

Facts Body Film Artist Tvs Theatre Despite Labels Concerts Resent

Author:Theodore Bikel

“Choosing to be in the theatre was a way to put my roots down somewhere with other people. It was a way to choose a new family.”

People Way Roots Theatre New Family

Author:Juliette Binoche

“I like the ephemeral thing about theatre, every performance is like a ghost - it's there and then it's gone.”

Gone Performances Theatre Ghost Ephemeral

Author:Maggie Smith

“This film business, perhaps more so in America than in Europe, has always been about young sexuality. It's not true of theatre, but in America, film audiences are young. It's not an intellectual cinema in America.”

America Film Young Audience Intellectual Europe Sexuality Theatre Cinema

Author:Jacqueline Bisset