Appropriate Quote by Ethel Merman

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

— Adrienne Shelly

Theater originated with technology. People forget that.

— Robert Lepage

Don't expect the theatre to satisfy the habits of its audience, but to change them.

— Bertolt Brecht

We have the ability to change people's minds and hearts - that's what we want to do with theatre. That's what theatre does... period.

— Gavin Creel

There's a certain breed of actors who has been always experimenting irrespective of the social landscape for the mediums of entertainment.

— Arjun Mathur

There are two impulses in theatre: to be frivolous or to make rules.

— Tadashi Suzuki

It is not theatre that is indispensable, but something quite different. To cross the frontiers between you and me.

— Jerzy Grotowski

The theater is a weapon, and it is the people who should wield it.

— Augusto Boal

In my opinion, theater shouldn't give advice to citizens.

— Vaclav Havel

It's communication - that's what theatre is all about.

— Chita Rivera

Theatre and television are two totally different disciplines.

— Tara Fitzgerald

A theater is being given over to market forces, which means that a whole generation that should be able to do theater as well…

— Vanessa Redgrave