Theatre Quotes - page 33

The Theatre of the Absurd ... can be seen as the reflection of what seems to be the attitude most genuinely representative of our own time.  The hallmark of this attitude is its sense that the certitudes and unshakable basic assumptions of former ages have been swept away, that they have been tested and found wanting, that they have been discredited as cheap and somewhat childish illusions. (Martin Esslin)
The Theatre of the Absurd has renounced arguing about the absurdity of the human condition; it merely presents it in being - that is, in terms of concrete stage images. This is the difference between the approach of the philosopher and that of the poet; the difference, to take an example from another sphere, between the idea of God in the works of Thomas Aquinas or Spinoza and the intuition of God in those of St. John of the Cross or Meister Eckhart - the difference between theory and experience. View quote
Martin Esslin
At the University of Maryland, my first year I started off planning to major in art because I was interested in theatre design, stage design or television design. View quote
Jim Henson
I should write a musical. That is probably one of the final areas that I should pay attention to, because it does kind of involve everything. It's got theatre, it's got young, pretty people... And it's got money! View quote
Rufus Wainwright
We must infuse our lives with art. Our national leaders must be informed that we want them to use our taxes to support street theatre in order to oppose street gangs. We should have a well-supported regional theatre in order to oppose regionalism and. View quote
Maya Angelou
I just am committed wholeheartedly to theatre with no intermission. View quote
Lady Gaga
I want you to feel happy and enjoy the theatre of my life the way that I do. No matter what happens with my music and wherever I go - that heart of that glamorous girl in New York will never be gone. View quote
Lady Gaga
I love England, the people, the parks, the theatre. View quote
Woody Harrelson
To me, the theatre - I don't like to say it, but I'll say it - is a temple in a kind of way, where human beings go to be elevated. View quote
Shelley Winters
I'd rather do theatre and British films than move to L.A. in hopes of getting small roles in American films. View quote
Kate Winslet
This visible world is wonderfully to be delighted in, and highly to be esteemed, because it is the theatre of God's righteous Kingdom. (Thomas Traherne)
There is a certain amount of sham in . There is a certain amount of theatre. View quote
Alan Moore
I'd like to think that we strive in film and theatre to tell great stories, and I believe in the power of storytelling in our culture. View quote
Andy Serkis
I think in the old days, everybody used to act really quickly because Hollywood was built by theatre people. View quote
Bill Nighy
I'm into parlor dramas. I'm into theatre. I'm trained for the stage. I trained to do Chekhov and Shakespeare, I was trained for the stage. View quote
Tom Hardy
Having now finished the work assigned me, I retire from the great theatre of Action; and bidding an Affectionate farewell to this August body under whose orders I have so long acted, I here offer my commission, and take my leave of all the employments of public life. View quote
George Washington
Having now finished the work assigned me, I retire from the great theatre of Action. View quote
George Washington
I wouldn't just come home from school and watch TV everyday, they had me involved in lots of local theatre. I was a very dramatic, talkative child. And that was part of my mother's creative solution - to put me in workshops and classes and children's theatre programmes. View quote
Kerry Washington
When I first saw a Fellini movie, I came out of the movie theatre and decided to become a lawyer! I thought to myself, it's impossible to make something so beautiful! View quote
Roberto Benigni
I'm not a poet, but I do like heightened language that can exist in the theatre. Many plays are sounding more naturalistic these days, more like TV. I still take my cues from Shakespeare. I would rather have the story exist more in the audience's heads than on a screen. View quote
Octavio Solis
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....” He laughed gently. "Some players would say that is the best kind of theatre there can be. (Susan Cooper)
The theatre, for all its artifices, depicts life in a sense more truly than history, because the medium has a kindred movement to that of real life, though an artificial setting and form. View quote
George Santayana
I'm really a theatre maker, but there's not a word for that. View quote
Julie Taymor
I've never been a puppeteer, I conceive and I write and I design and I direct. And not just puppets. I direct actors, I direct dancers, I direct singers, I direct films. I also direct puppeteers. I'm really a theatre maker, but there's not a word for that. View quote
Julie Taymor
Mum did a lot of commercial theatre and farces in the 1980s and '90s to make sure the school bills were paid. View quote
Benedict Cumberbatch