Theatre Quotes - Page 14

• 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

  Kings, Profound, Hierarchy

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• Theatre was an art form that I didn't really respect, and because I wanted to shake it up and do different things on stage, I was able to combine all the things I'd learnt through writing on my own.

  Martin McDonagh

  Art, Writing, Different

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• When I look back at what musical theatre music and show music meant to me, first of all - more than anything - what it meant to me was work. As I was growing up, I realized that singing and performing was my strong suit.

  Jason Mraz

  Strong, Growing Up, Musical

  Source: www.broadwayworld.com

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• Unless comedy touches me as well as amuses me, it leaves me with a sense of having wasted my evening. I go to the theatre to be moved to laughter, not to be tickled or bustled into it.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Laughter, Evening, Comedy

  George Bernard Shaw (1977). “The Portable Bernard Shaw”, Viking Adult

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• I don't sweat the Internet. You know, it's still something I enjoy as a movie geek myself to get on and, like, look at all the websites; however, when it comes to marketing a movie, the Internet is still not the thing that gets people to the theatre.

  Michael De Luca

  Sweat, People, Marketing

  Interview with Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub, collider.com. March 26, 2008.

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• I don't even think places like the National Youth Theatre (NYT) are necessarily about wanting to be an actor when you grow up. They're about meeting people from different backgrounds and different religions and different cultures, and mixing with people that you wouldn't ordinarily meet.

  Ashley Jensen

  Growing Up, Thinking, People

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• I've always loved musical theatre. I've always been a big kind of closeted musical theatre nerd. I really have always dreamed about being able to do musical theatre.

  John Gallagher, Jr.

  Nerd, Musical, Able

  Source: www.broadwaybullet.com

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• Sometimes you just have to trust the kids. The first glimpse of Wheelock Family Theatre's Shrek is a surprise. Instead of the round, green, smoothly computer-animated ogre of the movie, this Shrek is tall and hairy, with a lumpy green headpiece and mossy dreads. But as played by Christopher Chew in Wheelock's “Shrek the Musical,” this ogre was a hit with the children. they laughed and cheered and clapped in all the right places.

  Joel Brown

  Children, Kids, Musical

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• We don't want bores in the theatre. We don't want standardised acting, standard actors with standard-shaped legs. Acting needs everybody, cripples, dwarfs and people with noses so long. Give us something that is different.

  Sybil Thorndike

  Long, People, Giving

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• In accordance with the foregoing investigations on mathematical principles, let bronze vessels be made, proportionate to the size of the theatre, and let them be so fashioned that, when touched, they may produce with one another the notes of the fourth, the fifth, and so on up the double octave.

  Marcus Vitruvius Pollio

  Principles, May, Size

  "De architectura". Book by Vitruvius. Book V, Chapter V, Section 1,

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• I think it is so much more fun to discover film in the movie theatre when there is so much anticipation about the movie.

  Anne Hathaway

  Fun, Thinking, Anticipation

  "Anne Hathaway Talks Fighting in Heels, Adapting to Nolan’s Universe, Filming in Imax and More on the Set of the Dark Knight Rises". Interview with Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub, collider.com. May 27, 2012.

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• I am a Broadway theatre guy... so it was kind of my goal this year to come out to LA for pilot season and expand my horizons

  Jeremy Jordan

  Years, Broadway Theatre, Goal

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• The requirements of the theatre are very great--a strong constitution, energy and unflagging purpose, charm of feature, these alone do not necessarily mean anything, and they must not be relied upon as assurances of an easy conquest of the public heart. It is not only a question of fitness for the work, but of long years of most diligent effort to master the technique of the theatre, and to develop whatever of the art instinct we may possess upon the simplest, broadest, and most human lines.

  Julia Marlowe

  Art, Strong, Mean

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• When the sun sets beautifully, other beauties rise. Nature is a theatre; when one great player leaves the scene, another great player immediately enters. The play always continues excellently.

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Nature, Player, Sun

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• I am in the theatrical profession myself, my wife is in the theatrical profession, my children are in the theatrical profession.I had a dog that lived and died in it from a puppy; and my chaise-pony goes on, in Timour the Tartar.

  Charles Dickens

  Dog, Children, Wife

  Charles Dickens (1867). “Charles Dickens's works. Charles Dickens ed. [18 vols. of a 21 vol. set. Wanting A child's history of England; Christmas stories; The mystery of Edwin Drood].”, p.177

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• I don't approve of censorship. I like the French theatre idea. Put on the play, and if the audience doesn't care for it, or feels offended by it, they rip up the seats.

  John Huston

  Rip, Play, Ideas

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• An inebriated elderly gentleman in the last depths of shabbiness... played the calm and virtuous old men.

  Charles Dickens

  Men, Elderly, Gentleman

  Charles Dickens (1867). “The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby”, p.182

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• Theatre critics have no special access to the truth. And there should be no objective truth to art.

  Tim Crouch

  Art, Special, Objective Truth

  "Diary of An Oak Tree: part 2" by Tim Crouch, www.theguardian.com. February 20, 2007.

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• Theatre is a weapon. For that reason it must be fought for.

  Augusto Boal

  Weapons, Reason

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• My old manager of the Irish National Theatre said 'Don't worry about being a star, just worry about being a working actor. Just keep working.' I think that's really good advice.

  Colm Meaney

  Stars, Thinking, Worry

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• I have such a passion for theatre.

  Nicole Trunfio

  Passion

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• I'm at the National Theatre School, which is like the Juilliard of Canada.

  Jake Epstein

  School, Juilliard, Canada

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• Non-violence is a piece of theatre. You need an audience. What can you do when you have no audience?

  Arundhati Roy

  Needs, Pieces, Violence

  "Arundhati Roy: 'They are trying to keep me destabilised. Anybody who says anything is in danger'". Interview with Stephen Moss, www.theguardian.com. June 5, 2011.

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• I do not know how wicked American millionaires are, but as I travel about and see the results of their generosity in the form of hospitals, churches, public libraries, universities, parks, recreation grounds, art museums and theatres I wonder what on earth we should do without them.

  William Lyon Phelps

  Art, Museums, Generosity

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• The theatre is not the place for the musician. When the curtain is up the music interrupts the actor, and when it is down the music interrupts the audience.

  Sir Arthur Sullivan

  Musician, Actors, Curtains

  "The Mirror of Music, 1844-1944". Book by Percy A. Scholes, London: Novello, vol. 1, p. 267, 1947.

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