Aspire Quote by Willem Dafoe

We live in what is, but we find a thousand ways not to face it. Great theater strengthens our faculty to face it.

— Thornton Wilder

The bottom line is we go to theatre to vicariously spend time with really intense characters.

— John Ross Bowie

The idea with theatre is to come to an environment that you enjoy.

— Clive Rowe

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

The theatre is a world in itself. The possibility for creating experiences that move people is increased many times over. In the end, the…

— Cat Stevens

American theatre, to me, represents zeroing down on what the need is to get inside the personal hearts of people. I think it's really…

— Kelli O'Hara

It is not enough to demand insight and informative images of reality from the theater. Our theater must stimulate a desire for understanding, a…

— Bertolt Brecht

Theatre is my passion and first love for it is in this medium that I get to feel human-to-human contact.

— Himani Shivpuri

We do not go to the theatre like our ancestors, to escape from the pressure of reality, so much as to confirm our experience…

— Charles Lamb

It is brilliant going to the theatre and being forced to sit and listen and think about life. It can be almost a near-religious…

— Emily Mortimer

What's exciting about theatre is observing human behaviour. You're constantly making judgments about body language, the physical, the emotional, the intellectual.

— Hattie Morahan

The wonderful thing about theater is that it has so many people involved in the creation of it. The worst thing about theater is…

— George C. Wolfe