Quotes About Theater

The true theater, because it moves and makes use of living instruments, continues to stir up shadows where life has never ceased to grope its way.

It has not been definitively proved that the language of words is the best possible language. And it seems that on the stage, which is above all a space to fill and a place where something happens, the language of words may have to give way before a language of signs whose objective aspect is the one that has the most immediate impact upon us.

We must believe in a sense of life renewed by the theater, a sense of life in which man fearlessly makes himself master of what does not yet exist, and brings it into being. And everything that has not been born can still be brought to life if we are not satisfied to remain mere recording organisms.

The fixation of the theater in one language--written words, music, lights, noises--betokens its imminent ruin.

Like all magic cultures expressed by appropriate hieroglyphs, the true theater has its shadows too, and, of all languages and all arts, the theater is the only one left whose shadows have shattered their limitations.

Without an element of cruelty at the root of every spectacle, the theater is not possible.

I call for actors burning at the stakes, laughing at the flames.

Now the dressing-room full of RSC hierarchy. Suddenly Trevor Nunn pushes his way through and 'Trevs' me. I've heard a lot about this 'Trevving', but never had it done to me. From what I'd heard, a 'Trev' is an arm round your shoulder and a sideways squeeze. But this 'Trev' is a full frontal hug, so complete and so intimate that the dressing-room instantly clears, as if by suction. I'm left alone in the arms of this famous man wondering whether it's polite to let go.

Two types of people only neither felt suffocation by wearing mask-over-mouth nor had ever objection to putting on face mask and taking stupid vaccination and rather many felt exhilaration. One who were already hiding their real face behind an invisible mask before fake endemic aka pandemic theater started and have selfish heart with evil intention. Others who are in mega numbers with their foolish head that can't think anything of its own as it has malfunction.

Cyrano de Bergerac is a lesson in living life large.

I think a Play the best divertisement that wise men have: but I do also think them nothing so who do discourse so formallie about the rules of it, as if 'twere the grand affair of humane life.

What serious airs the rascal puts on! Look! His legs are already shrieking "oh! oh!" They are asking for shackles and wedges.

An actor should refine public taste.

Brekekekex, ko-ax, ko-ax.

Shall I crack any of those old jokes, master, At which the audience never fail to laugh

The true end of tragedy is to purify the passions.

Dramatic action, therefore, is not with a view to the representation of character: character comes in as subsidiary to the actions.

But most important of all is the structure of the incidents. For Tragedy is an imitation, not of men, but of an action and of life, and life consists in action.

un traje decente, una taza de café, al teatro los sábados y a los conciertos los domingos de primavera.

I don't possess a lot of self-confidence. I'm an actor so I simply act confident every time I hit the stage.

It was Strindberg, or more exactly, A Dream Play, that incited me to write for the theater.

I like musicals that are sometimes comedic, but I haven't even seen the Monty Python musical, and I'm a huge Monty Python fan.

Acting engenders and harbours qualities that are best left way behind in adolescence.

I went to UCLA for a year and a quarter. There were too many students at UCLA interested in what I was interested in, and they couldn't accommodate all of us. I wasn't allowed to take voice or dance, only theater and acting. So I saved my money and, at 19, moved to New York.