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  • " There are two kinds of theatre, good and bad. Much as I should like to see theatre in America, I would rather have no theatre than bad theatre. What we must strive for is perfection and come as close to it as is humanly possible"

    - Margot Jones

    Source: http://www.curtainup.com/quotepro.html


  • " If no single reason can fully account for the lack of great work on Broadway these days, there is a factor in the discussion that is rarely mentioned but which has a bearing on what gets produced: the audience. . . It's not audience intelligence that has waned; it's audience passion -- the pro forma Broadway standing ovation now springs from duty not desire.... If that passion exists more in the audience for The Lord of the Rings than for contemporary Broadway musicals, well, at least it is alive somewhere. (2003)"

    - Brendan Lemon

    Source: http://www.curtainup.com/quotepro.html


  • " There's a certain secret every actor must have in his work. If you reveal it, you're letting the audience in on the wrinkles and convolutions of your brain. All I want them to do is to see the effect."

    - Frank Langella

    Source: http://www.curtainup.com/quotepro.html


  • " Acting is an everlasting search for truth."

    - Laurence Olivier

    Source: http://www.curtainup.com/quotepro.html


  • " As a writer you're holding a dog. You let the dog run about. But you finally can pull him back. Finally, I'm in control. But the great excitement is to see what happens if you let the whole thing go. And the dog or the character really runs about, bites everyone in sight, jumps up trees, falls into lakes, gets wet, and you let that happen. That's the excitement of writing plays--to allow the thing to be free but still hold the final leash."

    - Harold Pinter

    Source: http://www.curtainup.com/quotepro.html


  • " People have pointed out evidences of personal feeling in my notices as if they were accusing me of a misdemeanor, not knowing that criticism written without personal feeling is not worth reading. It is the capacity for making good or bad art a personal matter that makes a man a critic."

    - George Bernard Shaw

    Source: http://www.curtainup.com/quotepro.html


  • " Acting isn't something you do. Instead of doing it, it occurs. If you're going to start with logic, you might as well give up. You can have conscious preparation, but you have unconscious results."

    - Lee Strasberg


  • " Acting is the most personal of our crafts. The make-up of a human being - his physical, mental and emotional habits - influence his acting to a much greater extent than commonly recognized."

    - Lee Strasberg


  • " Playwrights must be allowed to be at less than their best sometimes, without meeting an all-out critical assault."

    - Peter Hall

    Source: http://www.curtainup.com/quotepro.html


  • " An actor is at his best a kind of unfrocked priest who, for an hour or two, can call on heaven and hell to mesmerize a group of innocents"

    - Alec Guinness

    Source: http://www.curtainup.com/quotepro.html


  • " The stage play is a trial, not a deed of violence. The soul is opened, like the combination of a safe, by means of a word. You don't require an acetylene torch."

    - Jean Giradoux

    Source: http://www.curtainup.com/quotepro.html


  • " I've always tended to work with the set as another character in the play."

    - George Pinney

    Source: http://www.iu.edu/~rcapub/v29n1/sets.shtml


  • " I want everyone to feel as much as possible as if they inhabit the same space. They more fluid the relationship between actor and audience, the better."

    - Christine Jones

    Source: http://www.amrep.org/articles/5_2b/creating.html


  • " I have a large personal collection of pictures. For every project, I choose images. Usually I don't do this until I've done an extensive script breakdown and distilled the text down to poetic form. I have to plant enough seeds so that there will be vibration."

    - Christine Jones

    Source: http://www.amrep.org/articles/5_2b/creating.html


  • " If I weren't a theatre designer, I wouldn't be any other kind of designer. Design is interesting to me as it relates to narrative: the design has to support the narrative. Storytelling is the most important thing."

    - Christine Jones

    Source: http://www.amrep.org/articles/5_2b/creating.html


  • " Look, I'm over 40, I'm single, and I work in musical theater - you do the math!"

    - Nathan Lane

    Source: http://thinkexist.com/quotes/with/keyword/musical_theater


  • " In musical theater you have to be very big and very animated, while film and television are more toned down."

    - Kevin Richardson

    Source: http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/quotes/k/kevinricha292397.html


  • " A playwright is someone who lets his guts hang out on the stage."

    - Edward Albee

    Source: http://www.curtainup.com/quotepro.html


  • " People often ask me how long it takes me to write a play, and I tell them 'all of my life.'"

    - Edward Albee

    Source: http://www.curtainup.com/quotepro.html


  • " A great actor is independent of the poet, because the supreme essence of feeling does not reside in prose or in verse, but in the accent with which it is delivered."

    - Lee Strasberg