Theatre Quotes

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Words to the Wise

Quotations from a wide range of theatrical perspectives

For use in newsletters, season or fundraising brochures or emails, presentations--you name it.

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Category	Quote	First	Last	Source
General	THEATRE LOGIC In is down, down is front, out is up, up is back, off is out, on is in, and of course - right is left, and left is right. A drop shouldn't and a block and fall does neither. A prop doesn't and a cove has no water. Tripping is O.K. A running crew rarely gets anywhere. A purchase line will buy you nothing. A trap will not catch anything. A gridiron has nothing to do with football. A Strike is work (in fact a lot of work). And a green room, thank God, usually isn't. Now that you are fully versed in theatrical terms, Break a leg... but not really!		Unknown	www.angelfire.com/dc/musicthea/Quotes.html
Set Design	Theatrical design is different from many other art forms in that it is a collaborative art. No one theatre artist works independently to create a performance.	Kaoime	Malloy	The Art of Theatrical Design
Acting	There are no small parts, there are only small actors.	Konstantin	Stanislavksy	The Audience Book of Theatre Quotations, by Louis Phillips
General	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	http://www.curtainup.com/quotepro.html
Acting, Backstage, Directing, General	There is a kind of classlessness in the theater. The rehearsal pianist, the head carpenter, the stage manager, the star of the show--all are family.	John	Kander	It Happened On Broadway
General, Musical Theatre	There is a traditional trick that theatre people have played as long as I can remember. A veteran member of a company will order a gullible newcomer to find the key to the curtain. Naturally, the joke is there is no such thing. I have been in the theatre over fifty years, and I don't think anyone would consider me naive, but all my life I've been searching for that key. And I'm still looking. . . .	Richard	Rodgers	Musical Stages
Backstage	There is no definitive list of the duties of a stage manager that is applicable to all theaters and staging environments. Regardless of specific duties, however, the stage manager is the individual who accepts responsibility for the smooth running of rehearsals and performances, on stage and backstage.	Lawrence	Stern	Stage Management
General	There is no greater gift that a person can be given than to be put in touch with his creativity. [Theatre] transformed my life. [Director Declan Donnellan on discovering theatre as a lonely 16 year old.]	Declan	Donnellan	The Guardian
Set Design	There is no more reason for a room on a stage to be a reproduction of an actual room than for an actor who plays the part of Napoleon to be Napoleon, or for an actor who plays Death in the old morality play to be dead.	Robert	Edmond Jones	The Audience Book of Theatre Quotations, by Louis Phillips
Acting	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	http://www.curtainup.com/quotepro.html

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