Quotes About Theatre

In the annals of Parisian cultural history, the episode is still known as "the scandal of L'Age d'or.") A week later, Police Chief Chiappe closed the theatre; the film was censored, and remained so for fifty years.

Hold, are you mad? you damn'd confounded Dog, I am to rise, and speak the Epilogue.

My father made sure that I had lots of levels of education – from ballroom-dancing to painting, commando training, theatre and magic.

'Doctor Who' was my first telly job, and before that I did a lot of theatre in education, children's theatre.

I knew 'Be Our Guest' would be performed on a set and in costume, but anyone with a history in Theatre In Education will know that can mean anything.

Good teaching is l/4th preparation and 3/4ths theatre.

We do not go to the theatre like our ancestors, to escape from the pressure of reality, so much as to confirm our experience of it.

I think theatres will always remain a sacred place where people go for something live and experience things live, which is very different than the experience of film.

WILL emerges from the theatre into a street throbbing with nefarious life-whores, cutpurses, hawkers, urchins, tract-sellers, riffraff of all kinds in an area of stews (lowdown pubs), brothers and slums.

The theatre of the world is stocked with fewer settings than actors, and with fewer actors than situations.

the seaside life and the life of travel made me realise that the theatre of the world is stocked with fewer settings than actors, and with fewer actors than situations.

Reader, if thou intendest to go any farther, I would entreat thee to stay here a little. If thou art, as many in this pretending age, a sign or title gazer, and comest into books as Cato into the theatre, to go out again, - thou hast had thy entertainment; farewell!

Family is the theatre of the spiritual drama, the place where things happen, especially the things that matter.

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.

perhaps indeed there exists but a single intelligence of which everyone is a co-tenant, an intelligence towards which each of us from out of his own separate body turns his eyes, as int a theatre where, if everyone has his own separate seat, there is on the other hand but a single stage.

Bressant's voice or of Thiron's in L'Aventurière or in the Gendre de M. Poirier.

The "play" that is the nation's capital never closes, high drama and low comedy, villains and heroes, all the stuff of compelling theatre. And in true theatrical spirit, the show must, and hopefully will, go on.

Theatre is fake ... The knife is not real, the blood is not real, and the emotions are not real. Performance is just the opposite: the knife is real, the blood is real, and the emotions are real.

I have always been very fond of them (drama critics) . . . I think it is so frightfully clever of them to go night after night to the theatre and know so little about it.

I am a Broadway theatre guy... so it was kind of my goal this year to come out to LA for pilot season and expand my horizons

Everything I did growing up was with that as the real goal - doing Broadway; doing theatre. That was always the big thrill for me.

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

An actress can only play a woman. I'm an actor, I can play anything.

An actor is something less than a man, while an actress is something more than a woman.