Theatre Quotes

Free speech means the right to shout 'theatre' in a crowded fire. (Abbie Hoffman)
But men must know, that in this theatre of man's life it is reserved only for God and angels to be lookers on. View quote
Francis Bacon
A good drama critic is one who perceives what is happening in the theatre of his time. A great drama critic also perceives what is not happening. View quote
Kenneth Tynan
When I come into the theatre I get a sense of security. I love an audience. I love people, and I act because I like trying to give pleasure to people. View quote
Vivien Leigh
The theatre is supremely fitted to say: 'Behold! These things are.' Yet most dramatists employ it to say: 'This moral truth can be learned from beholding this action.' View quote
Thornton Wilder
It's one of the tragic ironies of the theatre that only one man in it can count on steady work - the night watchman. View quote
Tallulah Bankhead
The most stringent protection of free speech would not protect a man in falsely shouting fire in a theatre and causing a panic. View quote
Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
I think theatre should always be somewhat suspect. View quote
Václav Havel
What is a wife and what is a harlot? What is a church and what is a theatre? are they two and not one? Can they exist separate? Are not religion and politics the same thing? Brotherhood is religion. O demonstrations of reason dividing families in cruelty and pride! View quote
William Blake
The pit of a theatre is the one place where the tears of virtuous and wicked men alike are mingled. View quote
Denis Diderot
My real training as an actor was when I started doing theatre. (Steve Buscemi)
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. View quote
Tennessee Williams
You don't merely give over your creativity to making a film -- you give over your life In theatre, by contrast, you live these two rather strange lives simultaneously you have no option but to confront the mould on last night's washing-up. View quote
Daniel Day-Lewis
Fifteen years before I became a screen actor, I was in the theatre. A lot of my work was comedy, which I loved doing. It's harder. View quote
Ben Kingsley
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. View quote
Arthur Sullivan
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. View quote
Stella Adler
In the theatre the audience want to be surprised - but by things that they expect. View quote
Tristan Bernard
We need a type of theatre which not only releases the feelings, insights and impulses possible within the particular historical field of human relations, but employs and encourages those thoughts and feelings which help transform the field itself. View quote
Bertolt Brecht
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. View quote
Vitruvius
This is the Great Theatre of Life. Admission is free, but the taxation is mortal. You come when you can, and leave when you must. The show is continuous. Goodnight. View quote
Robertson Davies
I regard the theatre as a serious business, one that makes or should make man more human, which is to say, less alone. (Arthur Miller)
Her life with others no longer interests him. He wants only her stalking beauty, her theatre of expressions. He wants the minute secret reflection between them, the depth of field minimal, their foreignness intimate like two pages of a closed book. View quote
Michael Ondaatje
Nevertheless, in the theatre, and in the cinema, the contemporary reality of Poland has been represented only to a minuscule degree in the last 12 years. View quote
Andrzej Wajda
A theatre, a literature, an artistic expression that does not speak for its own time has no relevance. View quote
Dario Fo
The Greeks already understood that there was more interest in portraying an unusual character than a usual character - that is the purpose of films and theatre. View quote
Isabelle Huppert