An actor is part illusionist, part artist, part ham.
What is a wife and what is a harlot? What is a church and what is a theatre? are they two and not one? Can they exist separate? Are not religion and politics the same thing? Brotherhood is religion. O demonstrations of reason dividing families in cruelty and pride!
A dramatist is one who believes that the pure event, an action involving human beings, is more arresting than any comment that can be made upon it.
Listen carefully to first criticisms made of your work. Note just what it is about your work that critics don't like - then cultivate it. That's the only part of your work that's individual and worth keeping.
To maintain one's individuality, integrity, and true personality in the theatre is a big task.
Like hungry guests, a sitting audience looks / Plays are like suppers; poets are the cooks / The founder's you; the table is this place / The carvers we; the prologue is the grace / Each act a course, each scene, a different dish.
I see the playwright as a lay preacher peddling the ideas of his time in popular form.
I personally would like to bring a tortoise onto the stage, turn it into a racehorse, then into a hat, a song, a dragoon and a fountain of water. One can dare anything in the theatre and it is the place where one dares the least.
Acting is a very limited form of expression and those who take it seriously are very limited people. I take it seriously.
In our early youth we sit before the life that lies ahead of us like children sitting before the curtain in a theatre, in happy and tense anticipation of whatever is going to appear. Luckily we do not know what really will appear.
Unless the theatre can ennoble you, make you a better person, you should flee from it.
Actors ought to be larger than life. You come across quite enough ordinary, nondescript people in daily life and I don't see why you should be subjected to them on the stage too.
Actors are the only honest hypocrites.
It was in the Theatre St. Philippe (they has laid a temporary floor over the parquette seats) in the city we now call New Orleans, in the month of September, and in the year 1803.
The theater is a great equalizer: it is the only place where the poor can look down on the rich.
But men must know, that in this theatre of man's life it is reserved only for God and angels to be lookers on.
The stage play is a trial, not a deed of violence. The soul is opened, like the combination of a safe, by means of a word. You don't require an acetylene torch.
Drama criticism ... is a self-knowing account of the way in which one's consciousness has been modified during an evening at the theatre.
There, at the centre, are the artists who really form the consciousness of their time; they respond deeply, intuitively to what is happening, what has happened, and what will happen, and their response is expressed in metaphor, in image and in fable.
In London, theatregoers expect to laugh; in Paris, they wait grimly for proof that they should.
Great drama is the souvenir of the adventure of a master among the pieces of his own soul.
Cruelty in the theatre is unrelenting decisiveness, diligence, strictness.
My dad's a prominent theatre director in Toronto, so I grew up in that world, directing and producing theater since I was a teenager. I always loved movies but they seemed too complicated until I got a job as an assistant on a movie-of-the-week and the technical process became demystified, like peeking behind a magician's curtain. Not long after that I switched to movies and never looked back.
I believe movies are one of the great American art forms and the shared experience of watching a story unfold on screen is an important and joyful pastime. The movie theatre is my home, and the idea that someone would violate that innocent and hopeful place in such an unbearably savage way is devastating to me.
For the theatre one needs long arms... an artiste with short arms can never make a fine gesture.
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