Quotes About Theater

Richard Brinsley Sheridan

The sergeant's account of his past was ancient in its form and confusingly dramatic, as perhaps would have been a game of three-level chess between Richard Burbage and Sacha Guitry.

I decided at age 9, but I was reinforced at age 13 when a teacher told me I had talent. I can't say she really motivated me because I already knew. I knew I had talent. I went to the Jewish community theater and got in plays there. Then I went for the movies.'

The store is a drag show of well-being and mirth.

Your uncle, Poseidon sighed, has always had a flair for dramatic exits. I think he would've done well as the god of theater.

strangers? Millie's swan song on the stage, the last

Coming onstage for her first entrance, Diana felt transported to some ancient scene. They could have been any group of itinerant actors out making their way along the Silk Road, the famous Earth trade route that ran across the mountains and deserts and steppes of Asia, stopping in this medieval oriental city made glorious by its marble colonnades and gentle silk banners. Even

like they were in a play and he'd forgotten his lines.

A land of fences is so temporary. You can change things as easily as a stage set. I used to act, you know. Sometimes in decent theaters. Wretched theaters too. Fences, what are they? Stage design. That's the nice thing about England. Hedges give a sense of history properly set down in the land.

Su obra de teatro favorita era Enrique V, de Shakespeare, y le gustaba la cita: «Si es pecado codiciar el honor, soy el mayor de todos los pecadores».

I love live theater; I like the relationship between the show and the audience. That's my comfort zone, but more than anything, it's what makes me happy.

Theater is, of course, a reflection of life. Maybe we have to improve life before we can hope to improve theater.

Another change is that all three levels may show up in a small local theater of operations. A troop unit may have a beat, much as police do—an area where they are responsible for maintaining order and perhaps delivering other vital public services.

All the world's a stage, And all the men and women merely players.

This is very midsummer madness.

What's Hecuba to him or he to Hecuba,That he should weep for her?

How many ages henceShall this our lofty scene be acted o'er,In states unborn and accents yet unknown!

William Shakespeare

Or may we cramWithin this wooden O the very casquesThat did affright the air at Agincourt?

As in a theater, the eyes of men,After a well-grac'd actor leaves the stage,Are idly bent on him that enters next,Thinking his prattle to be tedious.

The most lamentable comedy, and most cruel death of Pyramus and Thisby.

Good now, play one sceneOf excellent dissembling, and let it lookLike perfect honor.

The fringed curtains of thine eye advance.

Like a strutting player, whose conceitLies in his hamstring, and doth think it richTo hear the wooden dialogue and sound'Twixt his stretch'd footing and the scaffoldage.