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Theatre Quotes by David Ives
- Learning to write for the theatre is learning to be a human being, because the theatre by its very nature makes you deal with other…
- I've taught both screenwriting and playwriting, and playwriting is both much harder and much more rewarding. One can teach people how to tell a story…
- Writing a play, you start with less, so more is demanded of you. It's as if you have to not only write a symphony, but…
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- But men must know, that in this theatre of man's life it is reserved only for God and angels to be lookers… — Francis Bacon
- It's one of the tragic ironies of the theatre that only one man in it can count on steady work - the… — Tallulah Bankhead
- The theatre is the involuntary reflex of the ideas of the crowd. — Sarah Bernhardt
- For the theatre one needs long arms... an artiste with short arms can never make a fine gesture. — Sarah Bernhardt
- I love the stage, I love the process of acting in theatre, but unfortunately, it doesn't pay the bills. — Kabir Bedi
- Memory is not an instrument for exploring the past but its theatre. It is the medium of past experience, as the ground… — Walter Benjamin
- The truth, the absolute truth, is that the chief beauty for the theatre consists in fine bodily proportions. — Sarah Bernhardt
- The word theatre comes from the Greeks. It means the seeing place. It is the place people come to see the truth… — Stella Adler
- The theatre is a spiritual and social X-ray of its time. — Stella Adler
- Despite a large body of work in films, TV, theatre and concerts, I am viewed by many as a Jewish artist. I… — Theodore Bikel
- Choosing to be in the theatre was a way to put my roots down somewhere with other people. It was a way… — Juliette Binoche
- This film business, perhaps more so in America than in Europe, has always been about young sexuality. It's not true of theatre,… — Jacqueline Bisset