Quotes About Theater

Dad's "Theory of Arrogance"—that everyone always assumes they're the Principal Character of Desire and/or Loathing in everybody else's Broadway play.

Only bad actors memorize lines. Good actors are perpetually writing them as they act.

We are the stage and all the players.

Life is full of internal dramas, instantaneous and sensational, played to an audience of one.

Mrs. Carbuncle had talked a great deal about "The Noble Jilt," and could boast that she had discussed the merits of the two chief characters with the actor and actress who were to undertake them.

The theater is the only place in the world where a gesture, once made, can never be made the same way twice.

AcÅ£iunea teatrului, ca ÅŸi a ciumei, este binef?c?toare, c?ci impingându-i pe oameni s? se vad? aÅŸa cum sunt, le smulge masca, le descoper? minciuna, moleÅŸeala, nimicnicia, ipocrizia

shit yourself

Comedy has had no history, because it was not at first treated seriously.

All the elements of an Epic poem are found in Tragedy, but the elements of a Tragedy are not all found in the Epic poem.

For Tragedy is an imitation, not of men, but of an action and of life, and life consists in action, and its end is a mode of action, not a quality.

Aeschylus first introduced a second actor; he diminished the importance of the Chorus, and assigned the leading part to the dialogue.

Every tragedy falls into two parts, — Complication and Unravelling or Denouement.

The Chorus too should be regarded as one of the actors; it should be an integral part of the whole, and share in the action, in the manner not of Euripides but of Sophocles.

Komedya, ortalamadan daha kötü karakterleri, tragedya ise ortalamadan daha iyi olan karakterleri taklit etmek isterler.

The objects the imitator represents are actions.

One-act [plays] are not strikingly remunerative, but, on the other hand, the veriest dullard could not spend more than a week in writing one.

The best way of successfully acting a part is to be it.

It was not merely that Holmes changed his costume. His expression, his manner, his very soul seemed to vary with every fresh part that he assumed. The stage lost a fine actor, even as science lost an acute reasoner, when he became a specialist in crime.

Dolby was in the driver's seat. "Surround Sound" was added. Now we had three speakers behind the screen, two more on the left side of the theater, and two on the right. A closely guarded secret about all this is that you hear the correct balance only if you're sitting in the center of the theater. On the left or right side, those speakers tend to dominate.

It's like there are two worlds in Drama Club. The world onstage and the world backstage. It reminds me of how I feel all the time.

Die Armee ist ein zu gefährlicher Ort für Theaterkritiker. - Macro

I haven't come to mock you, Oedipus, or to criticize your former failings.

This play, it is generally agreed, was produced before and fairly close to the year 441 B.C.