Theatre Quotes - Page 39

• It doesn’t make sense, it’s not logical, it’s not a safe profession or a smart profession if you wanna make money or have a living or have a family. So the fact that we keep doing [theatre] means we’re getting something from it that is almost childlike in its innocence.

  Santino Fontana

  Smart, Mean, Facts

  "Lapine, Fontana, and Shalhoub Talk Moss Hart And ‘Act One’". Interview with Rob Weinert-Kendt, www.americantheatre.org. April 9, 2014.

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• I went to the Glasgow Youth Theatre and they just let me in. But I was so shy that I was there for about six weeks without actually introducing myself.

  Bill Forsyth

  Shy, Six, Youth

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• There's a tradition in British intellectual life of mocking any non-political force that gets involved in politics, especially within the sphere of the arts and the theatre.

  Harold Pinter

  Art, Political, Intellectual

  "Pinter: I won't be silenced". Interview with Matthew Tempest, www.theguardian.com. August 3, 2001.

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• Chess and theatre often lead to madness.

  Fernando Arrabal

  Chess, Madness

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• Then I heard this genius teacher Stella Adler - I recommend you read anything you might find about her and if you have anyone interested in theatre, you get them one of her books.

  Harvey Keitel

  Teacher, Book, Reading

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• I prefer theatre but TV keeps you well known.

  Richard Briers

  Tvs, Recycling, Well Known

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• My parents used to take me to a lot of theatre when I was young.

  Lexa Doig

  Parent, Used, Young

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• Create an atmosphere in which anything is possible.

  Thomas Raymond Kelly

  Atmosphere, Anything Is Possible

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• Lost In Space fans are going to get organized, because we'll see them showing up in all the theatres.

  Mark Goddard

  Space, Fans, Showing Up

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• A good movie can take you out of your dull funk and the hopelessness that so often goes with slipping into a theatre; a good movie can make you feel alive again, in contact, not just lost in another city. Good movies make you care, make you believe in possibilities again.

  Pauline Kael

  Believe, Cities, Good Movie

  1970 Going Steady.

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• THEATRE HAS THE POWER TO MOVE, INSPIRE, TRANSFORM AND EDUCATE IN WAYS THAT NO OTHER ART FORM CAN. THEATRE REFLECTS BOTH THE EXTRAORDINARY DIVERSITY OF CULTURES AND OUR SHARED HUMAN CONDITION, IN ALL ITS VULNERABILITY AND STRENGTH.

  Irina Bokova

  Art, Moving, Diversity

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• The regrets in the theatre have always been the shows that you know ought to have worked but for one reason or another haven't.

  Andrew Lloyd Webber

  Regret, Reason, Shows

  "Andrew Lloyd Webber: 'My greatest regret'". Interview with Charles Spencer, www.telegraph.co.uk. March 26, 2013.

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• I did loads of student films and fringe theatre. I worked for free a lot.

  Christopher Parker

  Students, Film, Fringe

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• I strive for perfection, but of course it can never be perfect. I'm never satisfied at the end of a performance. But the great thing about live theatre is that every night you get another chance to get it right.

  Anthony Warlow

  Art, Night, Live Theatre

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• People often say to me - how clever you are! How brilliant to be able to go from ballet to theatre as you do. I answer that it is not clever at all. It is the gift of looking at oneself coolly, of calculating the future objectively. I could see the danger signals as far as ballet was concerned before anyone else did, that's all.

  Robert Helpmann

  Art, Clever, People

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

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• It being a remarkable fact in theatrical history, but one long since established beyond dispute, that it is a hopeless endeavor to attract people to a theatre unless they can be first brought to believe that they will never get in.

  Charles Dickens

  Believe, Long, People

  Charles Dickens (1868). “Nicholas Nickleby. Martin Chuzzlewit. American notes”, p.164

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• Theatre is poetry that rises from the book and becomes human enough to talk and shout, weep and despair

  Federico Garcia Lorca

  Book, Despair, Enough

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• There are all sorts of reasons why I don't do much work in the theatre, the main one being that after two performances I feel I've given all I can. I hate repetition, I really do. It's like asking a painter to paint he same picture every day of his life.

  Peter Cushing

  Hate, Two, Asking

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• Theatre is the art of looking at ourselves.

  Augusto Boal

  Art

  Augusto Boal (2005). “Games for Actors and Non-Actors”, p.15, Routledge

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• I will begin with what in my opinion is your lack of restraint. You are like a spectator in a theatre who expresses his enthusiasm so unrestrainedly that he prevents himself and others from hearing. That lack of restraint is particularly noticeable in the descriptions of nature with which you interrupt dialogues; when one reads them, these descriptions, one wishes they were more compact, shorter, say two or three lines.

  Anton Chekhov

  Nature, Two, Wish

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• By obtaining a sense of its place in the unfolding drama of life, set in an ecological theatre, so we can understand why it has become one of the leading players.

  Simon Conway Morris

  Drama, Player, House

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• In the future, bands are going to have to offer more than a pop show. They are going to have to an offer a well presented theatre show

  Syd Barrett

  Band, Pops, Shows

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• Sin is what is new, strong, surprising, strange. The theatre must take an interest in sin if the young are to be able to go there.

  Bertolt Brecht

  Strong, Able, Strange

  Bertolt Brecht, John Willett (1964). “Brecht on Theatre: The Development of an Aesthetic”

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• I don't think it's the job of filmmakers to give anybody answers. I do think, though, that a good film makes you ask questions of yourself as you leave the theatre.

  Paul Haggis

  Jobs, Thinking, Giving

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• The world was no doubt made, that it might be a theatre of the divine glory.

  John Calvin

  Doubt, World, Might

  John Calvin (2007). “Commentaries on the Epistle of Paul the Apostle to the Hebrews”, p.266, Wipf and Stock Publishers

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