Best Theater Proverbs
1711 Theater quotes by 1191 unique authors
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The best of our theater is standing on tiptoe, striving to see over the shoulders of father and mother. The worst is exploiting and wallowing…
— Arthur Miller
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We live in what is, but we find a thousand ways not to face it. Great theater strengthens our faculty to face it.
— Thornton Wilder
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For me the whole world is like a gigantic theater in which I am the only spectator without opera glasses. The orchestra plays the prelude…
— Isaac Babel
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In 1984, I turned to theater in the hopes of finding a more direct form of communication between me and my people.
— Cherrie Moraga
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Now Im back home, living in London, running my theater. I just want to enjoy all that.
— Sam Mendes
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I read and watch movies. I can't go to the movie theater much anymore, though, because I get recognized. It's worse sometimes if I wear…
— Ayumi Hamasaki
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Luxurious food and drinks, in no way protect you from harm. Wealth beyond what is natural, is no more use than an overflowing container. Real…
— Epicurus
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I work in between the cracks, where the voice starts dancing, where the body starts singing, where theater becomes cinema.
— Meredith Monk
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I have always wanted to work in the theater. I've always felt the glamour of being backstage and that excitement, but I've never actually done…
— Wes Anderson
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If you look at the Earth without architecture, its sometimes a little bit unpleasant. So there is this basic human need to do shelter in…
— Peter Zumthor
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To watch an American on a beach or crowding into a subway, or buying a theater ticket, or sitting at home with his radio on,…
— Alistair Cooke
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It seems to me that the thing that makes the theater worthwhile is the fact that it attracts so many people with ideas who are…
— Brooks Atkinson
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What people really want in the theater is fantasy involvement and not reality involvement.
— Edward Albee
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Dance, vaudeville, drama, movies - as a child I loved everything that went on in a theater.
— James Broughton
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When I was in New York after I left the Army, I studied for two years at the American Theater Wing, studied acting, which involved…
— James Earl Jones
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Well, he's got a much bigger circus to play with, and he has a lot more financing available, and he has a lot more time…
— Michael Madsen
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Popular culture is the new Babylon, into which so much art and intellect now flow. It is our imperial sex theater, supreme temple of the…
— Camille Paglia
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London's Windmill Theater grew famous for its nude tableaux. During the 1940 and 1950, this theater overcame the objections of censors by agreeing that none…
— Lynda Bellingham
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I think if my daughter was interested in acting, I would find ways for her to act in theater that has to do with her…
— Helen Hunt
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Parallel to the training of the body a struggle against the poisoning of the soul must begin. Our whole public life today is like a…
— Adolf Hitler
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I like the theater, dining and chasing women. Let me put it this way: I am a single, straight billionaire in Manhattan. It's like a…
— Michael Bloomberg
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You cannot be buried in obscurity: you are exposed upon a grand theater to the view of the world. If your actions are upright and…
— Cyrus the Great
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I had a grandmother who would always encourage me to learn about theater and film.
— Romany Malco
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I dont like going for more than a year without doing theater. I dont mind falling flat on my face so long as I feel…
— Sophie Okonedo
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It would have been a great story if Brooks had went out there and scored 21 points, ... That would have been great theater. But…
— Herman Edwards
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