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The play was a great success, but the audience was a disaster.

—Oscar Wilde

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I did theatre in the U.S. because there, content-wise, it’s very light. In India, theatre tends to get preachy.

—Vir Das

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Musical theatre is something I’m familiar with, I’ve been doing that.

—David Naughton

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A career in the theatre demands so much commitment.

—Jim Dale

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I’ve never been in love, never in my life.Oh, I’ve dreamed of love, dreamed endlessly, day and night,but my soul is like a fine piano that’s locked,and the key is lost.

—Sarah Ruhl

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I’m a theatre person, that’s who I am. I’m happy to make sojourns into the world of movies but I’m basically a theatre director that potters off and does a couple of movies.

—Stephen Daldry

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I AM the current curator of the black trunk and the stories it holds within.

—Hope Barrett

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I have a dialect myself; it’s more pronounced, because I have studied theatre and been in England. It’s half-British, half-Indian.

—Kunal Nayyar

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The word theatre comes from the Greeks. It means the seeing place. It is the place people come to see the truth about life and the social situation.

—Stella Adler

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American politics is theatre. There is a frightening emotionalism at national conventions.

—Robert Dallek

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There’s such a work ethic involved in theatre that you can’t learn in L.A.

—Amy Adams

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Anatomy is to physiology as geography is to history; it describes the theatre of events.

—Jean Fernel

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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.

—Josef Albers

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Great theatre is about challenging how we think and encouraging us to fantasize about a world we aspire to.

—Willem Dafoe

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I take thee at thy word:Call me but love, and I’ll be new baptized;Henceforth I never will be Romeo.

—William Shakespeare

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Theatres are curious places, magician’s trick-boxes where the golden memories of dramtic triumphs linger like nostalgic ghosts, and where the unexplainable, the fantastic, the tragic, the comic and the absurd are routine occurences on and...

—E.A. Bucchianeri

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We talk about theatre museums filled with old costumes and things. What we also need is a theatre museum of the old routines on videotape. We are only the custodians of those techniques, and they...

—Jim Dale

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Oh, where is it, where did my past go, when I was young, happy and intelligent, when my dreams and thoughts had some grace, and the present and future were lit up with hope? Why...

—Sarah Ruhl

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He seems, in manner and rank, above the class of young men who take that turn; but I remember hearing them say, that the little theatre at Fairport was to open with the performance of...

—Walter Scott

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I studied at the Piccolo Teatro di Milano; I was a theatre actor.

—Franco Nero

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I’m a pro! No, what I mean is I have performed with the Royal Shakespeare Company in England. I have been all over the place. I have studied theatre for seven years.

—Kunal Nayyar

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No actor is a success unless he feels inside himself, as long as he lives, that he is good.

—Stella Adler

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There isn’t really a theatre culture in L.A., which is odd when there are so many brilliant actors there.

—Raza Jaffrey

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people see so many movies that when they finally see one not so bad as the others, they think it’s great. an Academy Award means that you don’t stink quite as much as your cousin.

—Charles Bukowski

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An actor must never be afraid to make a fool of himself.

—Harvey Cocks

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Les représentations thé trales, elles aussi, sont enracinées dans la violence collective et ce sont des espèces de rites, mais plus nettoyés encore de leur violence que les sacrifices animaux, et plus riches sur le...

—René Girard

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I don’t have a preference between theatre and film; I like to do both. But I will say that there’s something about theatre that is more nourishing and sustaining than film ever can be.

—Willem Dafoe

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The real thing is, you should be seeing these plays in the Theatre. That’s what they were written for. That’s where the enjoyment is. Studying them is no enjoyment whatsoever.

—Tony Randall

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Every time I listened to Lux Radio Theatre, I wanted to vomit.

—Dick York

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I was prepared for the theatre, but not for the nuts and bolts.

—Matthew Ashford

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I think a person has to believe in something,or search out some kind of faith;otherwise life is empty, nothing.How can you live not knowing why the cranes fly,why children are born, why there are stars...

—Sarah Ruhl

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The theatre is a place where one has time for the problems of people to whom one would show the door if they came to one’s office for a job.

—Tennessee Williams

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How vast those Orbs must be, and how inconsiderable this Earth, the Theatre upon which all our mighty Designs, all our Navigations, and all our Wars are transacted, is when compared to them. A very...

—Christiaan Huygens

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Bolivian women sewed their lips shut for days. They threaded needles through their skin to stop their speech, to show what good speaking had done them.

—Leslie Jamison

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The best author is a dead author, because he’s out of your way and you own the play. Take what he has given you and use it for what you need.

—Stella Adler

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In fact the “mask” theme has come up several times in my background reading. Richard Sennett, for example, in “The Corrosion of Character: The Personal Consequences of Work in the New Capitalism”, and Robert Jackall,...

—Barbara Ehrenreich

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I don’t think theatre has changed; it’s society that has changed.

—Lee Hall

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Nevis tas moments ir skaists, kad tu runā, bet tas, kad tu klusē.

—Rūdolfs Blaumanis

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With theatre, you have to be ready for anything.

—Willem Dafoe

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I would have started the National Actors Theatre 30 years earlier.

—Tony Randall

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That´s the problem with planning a late night supper after the opera, not only does the hero or the heroine die singing, but you end up famished after the last notes of the finale.

—E.A. Bucchianeri

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A video taped stage performance is just – you know, it’s never gonna be the same as it is if you’re sitting there live in the theatre.

—Nathan Lane

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What silly little things sometimes take on meaning in life, suddenly, out of nowhere. And you know they’re little nothings, and you laugh at them, but all the same, you go on feeling them, you...

—Sarah Ruhl

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It’s shameful that today’s mouthy political expositors aren’t better versed in Orwell. Can you imagine a theatre director who hasn’t studied Shakespeare?

—William Giraldi

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What I want is irrelevant. This is your life, Faith.

—Diane Samuels

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In any case, the goal is the same: to connect.

—Nicolas Billon

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The imagination is closer to the actor than real life-more agreeable, more comfortable.

—Stella Adler

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All life is theatre,’ he said. ‘We are all actors, you and I, in a play which nobody wrote and which nobody will see. We have no audience but ourselves….

—Susan Cooper

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I like to keep up with London theatre, but it is a question of time.

—Charles Dance

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From kings to groundlings, Shakespeare made his work profound for everybody. That is how it should be. There is no hierarchy in theatre. It makes everyone part of a collective.

—Lee Hall

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