Theatre Quote by Ray Bradbury

“In actual fact, however, the revolt of Ibsen and Shaw against the conventional nineteenth century drama could very well be described as a return…

— W.H. Auden

“Poorly written books are a kin to actors forgetting their lines.”

— Peggy Randall-Martin

“Suppose, for instance, that men were only represented in literature as the lovers of women, and were never the friends of men, soldiers, thinkers,…

— Virginia Woolf

“Writing is one of the loneliest of the arts; unlike the actor we have no immediate audience and must wait many long months, even…

— Bryan Forbes

“Most of us, most of the time, act within plays the lines of which were written long ago, the images of which require recognition,…

— Sidney W. Mintz

“They didn't understand, for we were Shakespeare, and they were mere actors in the play.”

— Cassandra Giovanni

“If you don't read books, and if you don't get consumed by the physical and moral life of men and women in fiction and…

— David Denby

“It is true that biographical readings of the plays are dangerous, unregulated, prone to sentimentalization. It is absurd to cherry-pick passages of poetry written…

— Charles Nicholl

“Why do people who read Shakespeare still spend hours watching shitty TV or staring out of the window or arguing about whose dinner party…

— Glen Duncan

If by any chance a playwright wishes to express a political opinion or a moral opinion or a philosophy, he must be a good…

— Noel Coward

“If all, or almost all, the plays that are popular now, imaginative works as well as historical ones, are known to be nonsense and…

— Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

“He is like Shakespeare, if Shakespeare had gone mad and vowed to speak in only the most convoluted terms meant to confound his listeners.”

— Perpetua Langley