Quotes About Theater

Thou whoreson zed! Thou unnecessary letter! My lord, if you will give me leave, I will tread this unbolted villain into mortar, and daub the wall of a jakes with him. *all cheer for Shakespearean insults*

William Shakespeare

William Shakespeare

William Shakespeare

Thou weedy elf-skinned canker-blossom!

Tis ten to one this play can never please All that are here. Some come to take their ease And sleep an act or two; but those, we fear, W' have frighted with our trumpets.

The whole world - theater, and the people in it - the actors

London as an actor, writer, and part owner of the playing company the

?ycie jest jedynie przelotnym cieniem; ?a?osnym aktorem, co przez godzin? puszy si? i miota na scenie, po czym znika; opowie?ci? idioty, pe?n? wrzasku i w?ciek?o?ci, a nie znacz?c? nic.

Were it my cue to fight, I should have known it Without a prompter.—

Dieses Leben? Nein, dieses Leben ist weniger als Nichts. Ich mach nicht mehr mit, du. Was sagst du? Vorwärts, Kameraden, das Stück wird selbstverständlich brav bis zu Ende gespielt. Wer weiß, in welcher finsteren Ecke wir liegen oder an welcher süßen Brust, wenn der Vorhang endlich, endlich fällt. Fünf graue verregnete Akte!

Where did all these thirsty comics come from? I never knew a monologist to keel over from dehydration. Actors play hours of Shakespeare without Hamlet or Lear sneaking behind a drape for a belt of Poland Spring water.

Goatley forms an acting group which performs avant-garde plays written in palindromes, but the group slowly peters out as the members start dying off of starvation.

There probably aren't a lot of actors my age who tap dance.

Both Averill and Bayar were like actors speaking lines for their audience and not to each other.

I'm lost on this Sunday that's neither hot nor cold, having already taken refuge in a movie theater... I wished

Na vida nós somos artistas de uma peça de teatro absurdo escrita por um Deus absurdo.

Orpheus, with immaculately cut pleated trousers instead of a toga, was played by Jean Marais, Cocteau's young lover. The leading actress, Maria Casares, was Albert Camus's mistress.

Tom Stoppard was refreshingly candid when, after the successful premiere of Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead, he was asked what the play was about: "It's about to make me a lot of money.

Of a bad playwright: "Saying nothing is the mother tongue of his art.

Her petticoat had stripes of broad red and blue and looked as though it had been made out of a stage-curtain. I would have paid a lot for a front seat, but there was no performance.

Failure in the theater is more dramatic and uglier than any other form of writing. It costs so much, you feel so guilty.

I meet Silas at the movie theater on Church Street. We choose seats close to the front. He's wearing a striped wool hat that he keeps on the whole movie, and our bodies never touch. I've never been more aware of not touching someone in my life.

We do a lot of shows for young people who have probably never been to the theater before and they are learning about the Holocaust, which unhappily, many of them do not know about.