Cheese Quote by Frank Zappa

The immediacy of improvisation is intoxicating, but there's an intimacy that you get that's very different when you're doing drama.

— Keegan-Michael Key

True drama can be conceived only as resulting from the collective impulse of all the arts to communicate in the most immediate way with…

— Richard Wagner

The wonderful thing about theater is that anything, no matter how tendentious, no matter how stupid it sounds at first glance, can be made…

— Terry Teachout

Composition is frozen improvisation.

— Igor Stravinsky

I don't see that many plays, and for me, musicals are rarely pleasing.

— Wallace Shawn

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

I don't really look at genre. I mean, sometimes you might be playing heavies a lot, and you're like, 'Hey, it'd be nice to…

— Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje

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

— Parker Posey

The worst thing when you're working is to say, 'I have a question,' and the other person goes, 'No! This is what it is.'…

— George C. Wolfe

Theatre is highly satisfying in terms of words. You get to speak in monologues; words drive the action.

— Sarita Choudhury

That's the main lesson I've learned from working in the theater: respect the dramaturgy. I don't want to overwhelm everything with music.

— Alexandre Desplat

A great many quite good plays could be performed with rhythmic howls in the place of dialogue and lose almost nothing by the change.

— Rebecca West