Acting Quote by Stella Adler

I regard the theatre as the greatest of all art forms, the most immediate way in which a human being can share with another…

— Anonymous

Theatre is simply what cannot be expressed by any other means; a complexity of words, movements, gestures that convey a vision of the world…

— Eugene Ionesco

Theatre is not supposed to represent psychology but passions, which is totally different. Its role is to represent the soul's different emotional states, and…

— Ariane Mnouchkine

Theatre is a concentrate of life as normal. Theatre is a purified version of real life, an extraction, an essence of human behaviour that…

— Eleanor Catton

In our own, theatre can be the place where we come together, reaching with and through stories, to who we are and to who…

— Juliet Stevenson

The word theatre comes from the Greeks. It means the seeing place. It is the place people come to see the truth about life…

— Stella Adler

Theatre has nothing to do with buildings or other physical constructions. Theatre - or theatricality - is the capacity, this human property which allows…

— Augusto Boal

Theatre has to be theatrical. It has to draw attention to itself, like poetry.

— Tony Harrison

The theater is a communal experience, and whatever the emotional connection between an audience member and the actors onstage, it ripples through the whole…

— Colin Callender

“The ‘role of the theatre’ is much debated (by almost nobody, of course), but the thing defines itself in practice first and foremost as…

— Tom Stoppard

Unlike films, theatre allows you to experiment as an actor, which is fulfilling.

— Paresh Rawal

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

— Jonathan Bailey