Capable Quote by Peter Brook Download Open image “Theatre is, occasionally, capable of moments of truth.” — Peter Brook ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.9 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Capable Moments Theatre Time Truth
“When truth and virtue are so rare in almost every area of our society the world needs theatre and the theatre needs actors who… — Melissa Bruder Copy Share Image
Theatre is liberating because it only works if it's truthful - that's what it requires. That's not true of film: the camera does lie. — Helen McCrory Copy Share Image
The theatre was created to tell people the truth about life and the social situation. — Stella Adler Copy Share Image
I think theatre to some extent is always about telling stories, isn't it, and I think what I've learned is that freedom comes when… — Eve Ensler Copy Share Image
All theatre has truth, from Theatre in Education to panto to Shakespeare. — Clive Rowe Copy Share Image
All action in theatre must have inner justification, be logical, coherent, and real. — Constantin Stanislavski Copy Share Image
Theatre is, at its roots, some very brave people mutually consenting to a make believe world, with nothing but language to rest on. — Sarah Ruhl Copy Share Image
One of the great values of the theater is a communal search for truth; I believe that sincerely. — F. Murray Abraham Copy Share Image
Where every moment is about truth and I think it's a great challenge every night. That's what really drove me to wanting to do… — Deborah Cox Copy Share Image
Of all the mediums, theatre is the one where you really need to have something to say - because it's just you, the words,… — Abi Morgan Copy Share Image
Theatre is the art form of the present: it exists only in the present, and then it's gone. — Simon McBurney Copy Share Image
Theatre is highly satisfying in terms of words. You get to speak in monologues; words drive the action. — Sarita Choudhury Copy Share Image
The life of a play begins and ends in the moment of performance. This is where author, actors, and directors express all they have… — Peter Brook Copy Share Image
Shakespeare doesn't belong to the past. If his material is valid, it is valid now. It's like coal. The only meaningfulness of a piece… — Peter Brook Copy Share Image
Never ask yourself what you have learned... only ask yourself what are the circumstances which are different from last year. In that way, you… — Peter Brook Copy Share Image
I've always worked a bit like a cook in a big restaurant, where you've got lots and lots of things laid out and you… — Peter Brook Copy Share Image
Drama is exposure; it is confrontation; it is contradiction and it leads to analysis, construction, recognition and eventually to an awakening of understanding. — Peter Brook Copy Share Image
The work of a director can be summed up in two very simple words. Why and How. — Peter Brook Copy Share Image
We are aware that the conductor is not really making the music, it is making him -- if he is relaxed, open and attuned,… — Peter Brook Copy Share Image
An icon painter starts not with Jesus Christ but by finding earth and rubbing. Now what is earth, what are you rubbing in directing? — Peter Brook Copy Share Image
The work of rehearsal is looking for meaning and then making it meaningful. — Peter Brook Copy Share Image
Every choice I've ever made has been dictated by a formless hunch rather than by strict logic. — Peter Brook Copy Share Image
When we are capable of living in the moment free from the tyranny of "shoulds," free from the nagging sensation that this moment isn't… — Joan Z. Borysenko Copy Share Image
Everybody is different. Some writers can write reams of great books and then J. D. Salinger wrote just a few. Beethoven wrote nine symphonies.… — Billy Joel Copy Share Image
People are capable of great, great change during the span of one lifetime. And women even more than men. — Gabrielle Zevin Copy Share Image
When you lived it for years and years and years and seen different characters just get pummeled and squashed because 'I said so,' it… — Arn Anderson Copy Share Image
Each man is capable of doing one thing well. If he attempts several, he will fail to achieve distinction in any. — Plato Copy Share Image
But, outside of being a sweet little girl, she was awfully dumb and capable of doing horrible things. — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
I was terrible student. I was capable, but I never like being told what to do, so I was always in the bottom class… — Chris Lilley Copy Share Image
Not everyone is capable of madness; and of those lucky enough to be capable, not many have the courage for it. — August Strindberg Copy Share Image
[The Community's] crosses and trials give me confidence. But I derive my hope above all, and most especially, from our utter incapacity, for it… — Theodore Guerin Copy Share Image
The mathematical facts worthy of being studied are those which, by their analogy with other facts, are capable of leading us to the knowledge… — Henri Poincare Copy Share Image
I'm attracted to the garden, without a doubt, but I always try and image the wolf that's there, too. And that wolf would be… — Michael Light Copy Share Image