Best Theatre Quotes
1304 Theatre quotes by 861 unique authors
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There is a strange pecking order among actors. Theatre actors look down on film actors, who look down on TV actors. Thank God for reality…
— George Clooney
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When you are in a good theatre show, it is a wonderful and very fulfilling experience, entertaining a large audience and their showing their appreciation…
— Joel Grey
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As a working actor, all I want to do is work. That's it. It's terrifying when you don't work. It's very hard when you don't…
— Sandra Oh
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Now I'm seen by more people in one episode than I was in 20 years of theatre and movies. It's gratifying to have an impact…
— William Petersen
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I went to school, majored in theatre, and said 'Mom, I have to choose my own destiny. I want to be an actor.' A couple…
— Arsenio Hall
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No, my step-daughter just opened a theatre school for children, I have another daughter who works in the record industry and another who is going…
— Rosanne Cash
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The inhabitants of territories, often the theatre of war, are unavoidably subject to frequent infringements on their rights, which serve to weaken their sense of…
— Alexander Hamilton
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Anatomy is to physiology as geography is to history; it describes the theatre of events.
— Unknown Author
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In raising a people from slavery to freedom, you have called them to act on a new theatre; and it is a necessary part of…
— Joel Barlow
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Life beats down and crushes our souls and theatre reminds us that we have one. At least the type of theatre that I'm interested in;…
— Sanford Meisner
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To maintain one's individuality, integrity, and true personality in the theatre is a big task.
— Cyril Cusack
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I have always been very fond of them (drama critics) . . . I think it is so frightfully clever of them to go night…
— Noel Coward
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The theater, which is in no thing, but makes use of everything - gestures, sounds, words, screams, light, darkness - rediscovers itself at precisely the…
— Antonin Artaud
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They [Barnes Theatre Club] were a very good group, and for some reason when I finished the backstage thing, I just decided to that I…
— Robert Pattinson
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In early youth, as we contemplate our coming life, we are like children in a theatre before the curtain is raised, sitting there in high…
— Arthur Schopenhauer
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There is a lot of interest in the arts, music, theatre, filmmaking, engineering, architecture and software design. I think we have now transitioned the modern-day…
— John Baldacci
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The higher education system in these countries (US, Korea etc) has become like a theatre in which some people decided to stand to get a…
— Ha-Joon Chang
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What cities, as great as this, have . . . promised themselves immortality! Posterity can hardly trace the situation of some. The sorrowful traveller wanders…
— Oliver Goldsmith
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You must realise now, more clearly than ever, that God is calling you to serve Him in and from the ordinary, secular and civil activities…
— Josemaria Escriva
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Is it not the glory of the people of America, that whilst they have paid a decent regard to the opinions of former times and…
— James Madison
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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…
— George Washington
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Remember this practical piece of advice: Never come into the theatre with mud on your feet. Leave your dust and dirt outside. Check your little…
— Constantin Stanislavski
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The entire universe is a great theatre of mirrors.
— Alice Bailey
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Compare the cinema with theatre. Both are dramatic arts. Theatre brings actors before a public and every night during the season they re-enact the same…
— John Berger
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I had learned to have a perfect nausea for the theatre: the continual repetition of the same words and the same gestures, night after night,…
— Isadora Duncan
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