Not once in my life have I done theatre. Being on stage is…

You don't merely give over your creativity to making a film - you give over your life! In theatre, by contrast, you live these…

— Daniel Day-Lewis

Life is a theatre set in which there are but few practicable entrances.

— Victor Hugo

...in the theatre the stage keeps the audience aware of the fictional nature of the action. The reader poring over a magazine, on the…

— Gisele Freund

There is only one necessary condition for the emergence of a new theatre, that the stage and auditorium should be open to the masses,…

— Romain Rolland

Life is a theatre of alarms and contentions.

— Charles Horton Cooley

I was very interested in theatre, mostly in stage design. I did a little bit of acting.

— Jim Henson

“All life is theatre,' he said. 'We are all actors, you and I, in a play which nobody wrote and which nobody will see.…

— Susan Cooper

If it's the theatre and the stage that really interests you, you should work on your voice, develop its range and flexibility and most…

— Rosemary Harris

“The person looking at the fire cannot take his eyes off it because the flames of the fire perform a play just like the…

— Mehmet Murat ildan

“That is why it has been repeatedly noticed that the human life is a theatre where the mask show takes place, and we are…

— Arvydas Šliogeris

I started doing comedy because that was the only stage that I could find. It was the pure idea of being on stage. That…

— Robin Williams

Any time you take a movie to stage, you can't do the same thing; it's not gonna work.

— Taylor Louderman

I think some musicians can almost forget that the stage is something to do something on, even if that thing is standing still.

— Johnny Marr

A lot of my best stuff is just ad libs on stage, and that's one thing that I've gotten back to at the live…

— Jeff Dunham

I started in community theater at 7 years old. I loved being on stage and performing. At the time, I didn't correlate that the…

— Jessica Lucas