Action Quote by Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux

That's how all theater should be done - you only have one chance to see it and then it's gone. One night only.

— Amy Sedaris

Theater is dangerously open to repetition. Its exciting when you hit on a new way.

— Fiona Shaw

Theatre is immediate, it's alive, you're there with the audience, it can't be done again and again and again and again, it's organic.

— Kim Cattrall

Theater is dangerously open to repetition. It's exciting when you hit on a new way.

— Fiona Shaw

You really, really, really have to love what you are going to do in theatre because it is an unmerciful life. It's six days…

— Harvey Fierstein

With theatre, you have to be ready for anything.

— Willem Dafoe

There are an infinite number of ways to be moved in the theater.

— Martha Plimpton

I really am a theater person. That means you put something out there, and you let it go. Tomorrow night is a new performance.

— Harvey Fierstein

With the theatre, for God's sake, everything makes sense. You create a clear sequential reality for a specific audience at one particular time.

— Simon McBurney

The trick about the theater is at the end of the day you cannot take any of it personally.

— William Ivey Long

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

— Jonathan Bailey

Theatre is the art form of the present: it exists only in the present, and then it's gone.

— Simon McBurney