Below you will find our collection of inspirational, wise, and humorous
old theatre quotes, theatre sayings, and theatre proverbs, collected over the years from a variety
of sources.
We have freedom of speech, but you got to watch what you say.Viola Spolin
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Theatre exists only because it is overwhelming, because its acting is astonishing. Where a theatre and its acting are merely 'good,' merely 'correct,' merely 'in the proper style,' theatre dies a slow death.Robert Cohen
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The word theatre comes from the Greeks. It means the seeing place. It is the place people come to see the truth about life and the social situation. The theatre is a spiritual and social X-ray of its time. The theatre was created to tell people the truth about life and the social situation.Stella Adler
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Movies will make you famous; Television will make you rich; But theatre will make you good.Terrence Mann
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The theatre, when all is said and done, is not life in miniature, but life enormously magnified, life hideously exaggerated.H. L. Mencken
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Theater is, of course, a reflection of life. Maybe we have to improve life before we can hope to improve theater.W. R. Inge
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You need three things in the theatre -- the play, the actors and the audience, and each must give something.Kenneth Haigh
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Theater is a verb before it is a noun, an act before it is a place.Martha Graham
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In theater, the wellspring of the character comes from the doing of it, like a trial by fire, but in front of an audience.Estelle Parsons
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In the theater, characters have to cut the umbilical cord from the writer and talk in their own voices.Irwin Shaw
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The primary function of a theater is not to please itself, or even to please its audience. It is to serve talent.Robert Brustein
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It's one of the tragic ironies of the theatre that only one man in it can count on steady work -- the night watchman.Tallulah Bankhead
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The theatre is a place where one has time for the problems of people to whom one would show the door if they came to one's office for a job.Tennessee Williams
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Coughing in the theater is not a repiratory ailment. It is criticism.Alan Jay Lerner
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My only regret in the theater is that I could never sit out front and watch me.John Barrymore
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The theater is so endlessly fascinating because it's so accidental. It's so much like life.Arthur Miller
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In the theater the audience wants to be surprised but by things that they expect.Tristan Bernard
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The theater needs continual reminders that there is nothing more debasing than the work of those who do well what is not worth doing at all.Gore Vidal
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The theater, which is in no thing, but makes use of everything -- gestures, sounds, words, screams, light, darkness -- rediscovers itself at precisely the point where the mind requires a language to express its manifestations. To break through language in order to touch life is to create or recreate the theatre.Antonin Artaud
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Theatre demands different muscles and different aspects of one's personality.Victor Garber
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The difference between a theatre with and without an audience is enormous. There is a palpable, critical energy created by the presence of the audience.Andy Goldsworthy
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No theater could sanely flourish until there was an umbilical connection between what was happening on the stage and what was happening in the world.Kenneth Tynan
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I regard the theatre as the greatest of all art forms, the most immediate way in which a human being can share with another the sense of what it is to be a human being.Thornton Wilder
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Theatre is a weapon. For that reason it must be fought for.Augusto Boal
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Nothing in theatre has any meaning before or after. Meaning is now.Peter Brook
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The theatre is traditionally where people go to hear the truth.David Mamet
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If you want to help the American theater, don't be an actress, be an audience.Tallulah Bankhead
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The theater is a great equalizer: it is the only place where the poor can look down on the rich.Will Rogers
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The theater is so endlessly fascinating because it is so accidental. It's so much like life.Arthur Miller
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Theater is dangerously open to repetition. It's exciting when you hit on a new way.Fiona Shaw