The trick to loneliness is to spend a lot of time inside one’s head.

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. At first, the infant,Mewling and...

I was hungry when I left Pyongyang. I wasn’t hungry just for a bookshop that sold books that weren’t about Fat Man and Little Boy. I wasn’t ravenous just for a newspaper that had no...

Love art in yourself, not yourself in art.

To enter a theatre for a performance is to be inducted into a magical space, to be ushered into the sacred arena of the imagination.

My introduction to acting was through theatre, so I actually saw a couple of Broadway shows that made me want to be an actor.

We do on stage things that are supposed to happen off. Which is a kind of integrity, if you look on every exit as being an entrance somewhere else.

You never get anywhere until you figure out the difference between passion and compassion.

I did my New York debut at 21. It was ‘On the Town’ at the George Gershwin Theatre. New York is my artistic home.

You have to understand your best. Your best isn’t Barrymore’s best or Olivier’s best or my best, but your own. Every person has his norm. And in that norm every person is a star. Olivier...

Gus is the Cat at the Theatre Door.His name, as I ought to have told you before,Is really Asparagus. That’s such a fussTo pronounce, that we usually call him just Gus.His coat’s very shabby, he’s...

I coach young people. I have a group called BTP – Broadway Theatre Project.

Et voilà. Maintenant le ressort est bandé. Cela n’a plus qu’à se dérouler tout seul. C’est cela qui est commode dans la tragédie. On donne le petit coup de pouce pour que cela démarre, rien,...

When you step from the wings onto the stage you go from total blackness to a blinding hot glare. After a moment you adjust, but there is that moment. like being inside lightning.

It is growing cold. Winter is putting footsteps in the meadow. What whiteness boasts that sun that comes into this wood! One would say milk-colored maidens are dancing on the petals of orchids. How coldly...

All the world’s a stage.

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

A career in the theatre demands so much commitment.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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...

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...

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...

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...

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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...

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.

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.

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

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

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...

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.

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...

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.

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.

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,...