Theatre Quote by Henry Miller Download Open image ““I am appalled by the potentialities of drama that are still contained in these feeble bodies.”” — Henry Miller ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.7 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Theatre
“In their opinion, a tragedy with so little plot could not conform with the rules of drama. I enquired whether they were complaining that… — Jean Racine Copy Share Image
“What an amusing drama life is when one is not obliged to be one of the characters!” — Robertson Davies Copy Share Image
“There's supposed to be drama. The dull stories never make it into the books.” — Ellery Adams Copy Share Image
“Why is it only now that I can see how many ordinary things are actually grotesque?” — Sara Baume Copy Share Image
“Tragedy allowed the audience to experience intense, sometimes disturbing emotions that could not be experienced in real life without terrible cost.” — Barry B. Powell Copy Share Image
“My dramas mostly involved whats-as in, What on earth is that horrible creature about to rip out my throat?” — Kiersten White Copy Share Image
“The theatre is certainly a place for learning about the brevity of human glory: oh all those wonderful glittering absolutely vanished pantomimes.” — Iris Murdoch Copy Share Image
“It often happens that the real tragedies of life occur in such an inartistic manner that they hurt us by their crude violence, their absolute incoherence, their absurd want of meaning, their entire lack of style. They affect us just as vulgarity affects us. They give us an impression of sheer brute force, and we revolt against that. Sometimes, however,… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share
“I loathe the grading of tragedy and the jostling for pre-eminence amongst the bereaved, that most disgusting example of the disgusting habit of claiming… — Catriona McPherson Copy Share Image
“At first, this earth, a stage so gloomed with woe You all but sicken at the shifting scenes And yet be patient. Our playwright… — Jack London Copy Share Image
“There’s no such thing as an uninteresting life, such a thing is an impossibility. Beneath the dullest exterior, there is a drama, a comedy,… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“There are almost no characters in this story, and almost no dramatic confrontations, because most of the people in it are so sick and… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“I reached out for something to attach myself to—and I found nothing. But in reaching out, in the effort to grasp, to attach myself,… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
“I saw the errors I had made and assumed full responsibility for everything.” — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
The monstrous thing is not that men have created roses out of this dung heap, but that, for some reason or other, they should… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
“(...)I decided to let myself drift with the tide, to make not the least resistance to fate, no matter in what form it presented… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
“If it be knowledge or wisdom one is seeking, then one had better go direct to the source. And the source is not the… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
“In the egocentric prism the helpless victim is walled in by the very light which he refracts. The ego dies in its own glass… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
“When one spends what he has on himself, when one has a thoroughly good time with his own money, people are apt to say… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
She may be lying in bed reading a book, she may be making love with a prize fighter, or she may be running like… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
“And no one sets about saving the world unless he has first experienced the miracle of personal salvation.” — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
“He looks about the room at the few sticks of furniture, at the dirty bed sheets and the wash basin with the dirty water… — Henry Miller 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