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Theatre Quotes by Simon McBurney
- As far as I'm concerned all theatre is physical. As Aristotle says, you know, theatre is an act and an action, and he didn't mean…
- Every time I make, I've made a piece of work, I've wanted to get rid of it, obliterate it and do the next thing, because…
- Ultimately, theatre takes place in the minds of the audience: they all imagine the same thing at the same time.
- The more they uncover the more mystery appears to be there...
- Theatre artists are essentially sort of charlatans and thieves, I mean that's the tradition that we come from, so I have absolutely no, I make…
- Any fifth language that you use should be equally used as just another bit of theater language, so that if you have a strong text,…
- We try to place the human body in relation to the image all the time, so it's never a kind of a backdrop, but it's…
- Normally when people ask me what I do I say I'm an actor, and that's what I always wanted to be and that's the way…
- I suppose as an actor you become very sensitive to rhythm, not just rhythm as you look at it sort of from the, from the…
- The other, the other aspect when I say I'm an actor is that as an actor you make this imaginative leap into being somebody else,…
- I mean I'm talking about playing games, about imagining other people, and it's part of the way that it helps you actually see the world.
- I think it was a desire to be able to find my own voice. I think that was the big urge within me.
- I sometimes feel that I am trying to dig in the world around me. I'm involved in another kind of archaeology to look for another…
- Yes it was chaos, working through chaos, you never quite knew what you were going to do each day, but you knew that you wanted…
- The only way that you can keep moving forward, finding other ways of expressing things about this increasingly complicated world that we live in, is…
- When you make something, if you are a painter or a writer, a degree, or a sculptor or whatever or a musician, a degree of…
- People expect the math to be simplified, but I want to surprise them right from the start. When the brain gets lost, it doesn't stop…
- Infinity is a way to describe the incomprehensible to the human mind. In a way it notates a mystery. That kind of mystery exists in…
- I had a teacher in Paris, who said that if an actor forgot what it's like to play as a child he shouldn't be an…
- One of the things he liked about playwriting as to any other kind of writing is that a playwright is a w-r-i-g-h-t, not a w-r-i-t-e;…
- The only reality of the theater exists in the mind of the audience. That audience looks collectively at what is going on on the stage…
- I can't remember a single year of my life when I haven't made a piece of theatre.
- Theatre is about the collective imagination... Everything I use on-stage is driven by the subject matter and what you might call the text - but…
More Theatre Quotes
- 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