Action Quote by Constantin Stanislavski

Theatre is, occasionally, capable of moments of truth.

— Peter Brook

In the theater there is often a tension, almost a contradiction, between the way real people would think and behave, and a kind of…

— Tom Stoppard

Theatre has to be theatrical. It has to draw attention to itself, like poetry.

— Tony Harrison

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…

— Simon McBurney

The theatre-acting, creating, interpreting - means total involvement, the totality of heart, mind and spirit.

— Stella Adler

Theatre is simply what cannot be expressed by any other means; a complexity of words, movements, gestures that convey a vision of the world…

— Eugene Ionesco

Every generous action loves the public view; yet no theatre for virtue is equal to a consciousness of it.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

Everything has its own kind of theatricality and its own drama.

— Parker Posey

The structure of theatre is always: turn up, do the job, be present and be kind, and work hard.

— Jonathan Bailey

I regard the theatre as the greatest of all art forms, the most immediate way in which a human being can share with another…

— Anonymous

Theatre is, at its roots, some very brave people mutually consenting to a make believe world, with nothing but language to rest on.

— Sarah Ruhl

Theater represents to me this phenomenon in juxtaposition to real life, where there are all these imposed guidelines.

— Adrienne Shelly