All the world's a stage, and all the men and women mearly players.
The pit of a theatre is the one place where the tears of virtuous and wicked men alike are mingled.
To break through language in order to touch life is to create or re-create the theater.
A fire broke out backstage in a theatre. The clown came out to warn the public; they thought it was a joke and applauded. He repeated it; the acclaim was even greater. I think that's just how the world will come to an end: to the general applause of wits who believe it's a joke.
No theater could sanely flourish until there was an umbilical connection between what was happening on the stage and what was happening in the world.
In the theatre we reach out and touch the past through literature, history and memory so that we might receive and relive significant and relevant human qualities in the present and then pass them on to future generations.
I really do inhabit a system in which words are capable of shaking the entire structure of government, where words can prove mightier than 10 military divisions.
The difference between a theatre with and without an audience is enormous. There is a palpable, critical energy created by the presence of the audience.
I regard the theatre as the greatest of all art forms.
There are two impulses in theatre: to be frivolous or to make rules.
Actor training should be broadly humanistic, involving the study not just of dramatic literature and theatre history, but of languages, literature, and history generally, and should be centered on acting in plays rather than just exercises, improvisations, monologues, or even scenes.
Embarrassment is a partner in the creative act.
A good drama critic is one who perceives what is happening in the theatre of his time. A great drama critic also perceives what is not happening.
Theatre director: a person engaged by the management to conceal the fact that the players cannot act.
Theatre people, who are an adaptive species, know that to remain sane in the process of production where everyone and his uncle has an opinion about how to fix a show, you must pick the people whose knowledge and taste you trust and stick only to these few. The Tweetocracy is no place to look.
We should return to the Greeks, play in the open air: the drama dies of stalls and boxes and evening dress, and people who come to digest their dinner.
In New York people don't go to the theatre - they go to see hits.
The strange power of art is sometimes it can show that what people have in common is more urgent than what differentiates them. It seems to me it's something that theatre can do, but it's rare; it's very rare.
The good die young but not always. The wicked prevail but not consistently. I am confused by life, and I feel safe within the confines of the theatre.
One man in his time plays many parts.
Playwriting isn't a calling so much as it is a hazing process.
The greater the obstacle, the more glory in overcoming it.
My plan is to have a theatre in some small town or something and I'll be manager. Ill be the crazy old movie guy.
I want to give the audience a hint of a scene. No more than that. Give them too much and they won't contribute anything themselves. Give them just a suggestion and you get them working with you. That's what gives the theater meaning: when it becomes a social act.
It's hard enough for me to write what I want to write without me trying to write what you say they want me to write which I don't want to write.
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