Stage Play Quotes

• A stage play ought to be the point of intersection between the visible and invisible worlds, or, in other words, the display, the manifestation of the hidden.

  Arthur Adamov

  Play, World, Invisible

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• All the world's a stage, and all the men and women merely players: they have their exits and their entrances; and one man in his time plays many parts, his acts being seven ages.

  William Shakespeare

  Birthday, Time, Player

  'As You Like It' (1599) act 2, sc. 7, l. 139

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• A stage play is basically a form of uber-schizophrenia. You split yourself into two minds - one being the protagonist and the other being the antagonist. The playwright also splits himself into two other minds: the mind of the writer and the mind of the audience.

  David Mamet

  Play, Two, Uber

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• You need three things in the theatre - the play, the actors and the audience, and each must give something.

  Kenneth Haigh

  Play, Giving, Theatre

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• One man in his time plays many parts.

  William Shakespeare

  Birthday, Character, Men

  'As You Like It' (1599) act 2, sc. 7, l. 139

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• There will always be a theatrical experience because there will always be cinemas no matter what. It's like there will always be theaters to have stage plays in.

  Nicolas Winding Refn

  Play, Cinema, Matter

  Source: uk.businessinsider.com

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• All the world's a stage, and all the men and women mearly players.

  William Shakespeare

  Friendship, Birthday, Men

  'As You Like It' (1599) act 2, sc. 7, l. 139

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• Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player, that struts and frets his hour upon the stage, and then is heard no more; it is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.

  William Shakespeare

  Inspirational, Life, Success

  'Macbeth' (1606) act 5, sc. 5, l. 16

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• It is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury; signifying nothing.

  William Shakespeare

  Life, Death, Play

  'Macbeth' (1606) act 5, sc. 5, l. 16

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• They were all dressed in their finest as though life really were some magical stage play in which every moment ought to be illuminated with its own bright spotlight.

  Anna Godbersen

  Play, Spotlight, Moments

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• Without the heart it is no worship; it is a stage play; an acting a part without being that person really which is acted by us: a hypocrite, in the notion of the word, is a stageplayer.

  Stephen Charnock

  Heart, Hypocrite, Play

  "The Existence and Attributes of God".

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• It takes a lot out of you to do a stage play, but I'd love to do that. I'd love to continue to do challenging material, whatever shape or form that comes in.

  Jeremy Renner

  Play, Challenges, Shapes

  Source: collider.com

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• Acting in a stage play is like working the evening shift in an office.

  Arthur Smith

  Play, Office, Acting

  "The agony of acting" by Arthur Smith, www.theguardian.com. June 6, 2001.

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• Without the heart it’s not worship, it’s a stage play.

  Stephen Charnock

  Heart, Play, Worship

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• I don't think I write differently when I'm writing a screenplay, as opposed to a stage play or a teleplay. Maybe if I were in a film class and there was time to think about it, we could point out differences.

  Aaron Sorkin

  Writing, Thinking, Class

  Source: collider.com

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• The 10 or 12 artists I have known really well all my life are at least as competitive as professional athletes. They may express it in slightly different terms, but you look at the Jackson Pollocks et al., and they are as interested in wall space in the galleries as Joe Montana is in the percentage of completed passes. So the notion that symphonic conducting, or stage play, or pure art, is not a competitive business is real bullshit.

  Tom Peters

  Art, Wall, Business

  "The Peters Principles". Interview with Virginia Postrel, reason.com. October 1997.

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• A symphony is a stage play with the parts written for instruments instead of for actors.

  Colin Wilson

  Play, Symphony, Actors

  Colin Wilson (1964). “Brandy of the Damned: Discoveries of a Musical Eclectic”, London : J.Baker

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• I wrote my first book at eight, all of four pages. At 10, I did a 40-page story. At 12, I wrote two stage plays.

  Caitlin Moran

  Book, Eight, Play

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• My first lead role was a stage play called A Kestrel for a Knave. I was 11.

  Justin Chadwick

  Play, Roles, Knaves

  "Justin Chadwick and the Madiba Effect". Interview with Emma Brown, www.interviewmagazine.com. December 26, 2013.

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• There's never been a film with Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. at the center released in theaters. Ever! One does not exist. You've only seen tele-films and stage plays about him. Yet, we have big screens biopics about all kinds of people. So, I think it's only right that there be a full-length feature about Dr. King. I don't think there could be enough of them, but there should be at least one. So, here it is!

  Ava DuVernay

  Kings, Thinking, Play

  Interview with Kam Williams, www.kamwilliams.com. December 22, 2014.

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• It worries me a little bit the reach and power of TV. More people saw me in The Practice than will ever see me in all the stage plays I ever do. Which is sort of humbling. Or troubling. Or both.

  Michael Emerson

  Practice, Play, People

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• A stage play requires very different craft from a book, fiction or otherwise, and ditto from a screenplay.

  Dirk Benedict

  Book, Play, Different

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• Pain itself can be pleasurable accidentally in so far as it is accompanied by wonder, as in stage-plays; or in so far as it recalls a beloved object to one's memory, and makes one feel one's love for the thing, whose absence gives us pain. Consequently, since love is pleasant, both pain and whatever else results from love, in so far as they remind us of our love, are pleasant.

  Thomas Aquinas

  Pain, Memories, Love Is

  Saint Thomas (Aquinas) (1845). “Summa Theologica, (Complete)”, p.3172, Library of Alexandria

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• A book is actually a place, a place where we, as adults, still have the chance to engage in active imagining, translating word to image, connecting these images to memories, dreams, and larger ideas. Television, film, even the stage play, have already been imagined for us, but the book, in whatever form we choose to interact with it, forces us to complete it.

  Joe Meno

  Dream, Memories, Book

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• I came to Mozambique in 1986, when I first became involved with Teatro Avenida - a theatre company that stages plays concerned with political and social issues.

  Henning Mankell

  Play, Issues, Political

  "Henning Mankell's Mozambique". www.theguardian.com. September 17, 2010.

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