Theatre Quote by Edward Bond Download Open image “The theatre, our theatre, comes from the Greeks” — Edward Bond ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.8 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Theatre
The word theatre comes from the Greeks. It means the seeing place. It is the place people come to see the truth about life… — Stella Adler Copy Share Image
“The theater of man is not always 'amusing', but it is always theater, and theater can be marveled at even when its content is… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
“The Greeks, or more correctly the Athenians, invented the idea of theatre, as they invented so many other social and cultural institutions which the… — M.I. Finley Copy Share Image
We will get back to the earlier, instinctive and less inhibited nature of theatre. Today, spectators are passive, but Elizabethan, Greek and Roma; theatre… — Sam Wanamaker Copy Share Image
It's not as though there aren't many, many art works and many other cultures, but there was something special about the civic nature of… — Martha C. Nussbaum Copy Share Image
Theatre probably originated without texts, but by the time we get to the classical Greek period, theatre has become text-based. — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
The Greeks already understood that there was more interest in portraying an unusual character than a usual character - that is the purpose of… — Isabelle Huppert Copy Share Image
To save the theatre, the theatre must be destroyed, the actors and actresses must all die of the plague. They poison the air, they… — Eleanora Duse Copy Share Image
In our own, theatre can be the place where we come together, reaching with and through stories, to who we are and to who… — Juliet Stevenson Copy Share Image
Theatricality - that's where you get catharsis. The Greeks went to see drama because they felt like this wasn't happening to them. — Arca Copy Share Image
In Elizabethan England or classical Athens... theater was at the center of, not culture, but society and politics and religion and civic engagement. Those… — Diane Paulus Copy Share Image
“Your law always does more harm than crime, and your morality is a form of violence.” — Edward Bond Copy Share Image
I write plays not to make money, but to stop myself from going mad. Because it's my way of making the world rational to… — Edward Bond Copy Share Image
As Shakespeare himself knew, the peace, the reconciliation that he created on the stage would not last an hour on the street. — Edward Bond Copy Share Image
We are still living in the aftershock of Hiroshima, people are still the scars of history. — Edward Bond Copy Share Image
The human mind is a dramatic structure in itself and our society is absolutely saturated with drama — Edward Bond Copy Share Image
It's insulting to ask a dramatist what his view of his play is. I have no opinion — Edward Bond Copy Share Image
Whatever the economy needs to maintain itself, the government will do it. — Edward Bond Copy Share Image
“O burn the house! You've murdered the husband, slaughtered the cattle, poisoned the well, raped the mother, killed the child - you must burn… — Edward Bond Copy Share Image
“It's dangerous to tell the truth, truth without power is always dangerous. And we should fight! Freedom's not an idea, it's a passion! If… — Edward Bond Copy Share Image
I'm trying to write a film with my friend. I'd love to get the thrill of speaking actors making my work even funnier. — Russell Howard Copy Share Image
There has got to be a way for me to have a role on TV or in film that is just as normal as… — Adeel Akhtar Copy Share Image
I love casting against type and doing things you wouldn't expect, because I think you get more interesting performances that way. Hollywood loves to… — David S. Goyer Copy Share Image
When you're on a daytime drama you get one page, you better damn well know your character. You better know what she would do… — David Hudgins Copy Share Image
In the future, I would like to do more films with contemporary themes. Perhaps comedy, which is something I have done in theater but… — Luke Evans Copy Share Image
I'm very used to working with first time actors - you can just look back at 'E.T.' with Drew Barrymore, and Christian Bale from… — Steven Spielberg Copy Share Image
On stage, you can bring all those strong emotions that you don't have the opportunity to live. You don't want to die for love… — Sylvie Guillem Copy Share Image
You will see a 3-D movie in a movie theater for the shared experience of it - or for a date, and so on.… — Howard Stringer Copy Share Image
I love film people and actors and I am in the right world because I am one of those people. — Ewan McGregor Copy Share Image
The liveness of theater, and the excitement of experiencing it alongside an audience, is something you can't get at home. That makes the theater… — Nick Blaemire Copy Share Image
When I was 13, I auditioned for the theater school, and I was there for four years. In the meantime, I did my first… — Ana de Armas Copy Share Image
