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Theatre Quotes

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I regard the theatre as the greatest of all art forms, the most immediate way in which a human being can share with another the sense of what it is to be a human being.
Oscar Wilde

What is a wife and what is a harlot? What is a church and what is a theatre? are they two and not one? Can they exist separate? Are not religion and politics the same thing? Brotherhood is religion. O demonstrations of reason dividing families in cruelty and pride!
William Blake

I have the terrible feeling that, because I am wearing a white beard and am sitting in the back of the theatre, you expect me to tell you the truth about something. These are the cheap seats, not Mount Sinai.
Orson Welles

My father's parents were carpenters. They were also builders partly. They were painters. And several of them were very, active in the theatre and all such nonsense, you know.
Josef Albers

But men must know, that in this theatre of man's life it is reserved only for God and angels to be lookers on.
Francis Bacon

Pornography is a theatre of types, never of individuals.
Susan Sontag

My plan is to have a theatre in some small town or something and I'll be manager. Ill be the crazy old movie guy.
Quentin Tarantino

Yeah, well I've always played comedy. My background is musical comedy theatre and that's really where my training is. As an actor, that's my training.
Christopher Walken

A good film is when the price of the dinner, the theatre admission and the babysitter were worth it.
Alfred Hitchcock

The theatre was created to tell people the truth about life and the social situation.
Stella Adler

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.
Stella Adler

The theatre is a spiritual and social X-ray of its time.
Stella Adler

Inside I never said I wanted to do theatre or be an actor.
Sebastian Bach

Theatre sports is the best improv training period.
Wayne Brady

My playground was the theatre. I'd sit and watch my mother pretend for a living. As a young girl, that's pretty seductive.
Gwyneth Paltrow

All the best performers bring to their role something more, something different than what the author put on paper. That's what makes theatre live. That's why it persists.
Stephen Sondheim

When I come into the theatre I get a sense of security. I love an audience. I love people, and I act because I like trying to give pleasure to people.
Vivien Leigh

I think any classical training in the theatre is of enormous value.
Vivien Leigh

The pit of a theatre is the one place where the tears of virtuous and wicked men alike are mingled.
Denis Diderot

From there, I tried out for a community theatre play, joined an improv group... it all started opening up.
Kevin James

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