Theatre Quotes
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.
Category | Quote | First | Last | Source |
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Acting |
Onstage, you just have to tell the absolute truth about the character you are playing. You hope you communicate it, and you hope it comes back like a tennis ball. If you're listening to the sound of your own voice, nobody else is. The audience knows, and they freeze on you. |
Carol | Channing | It Happened On Broadway |
Acting |
The basic essential of a great actor is that he loves himself in acting. |
Charles | Chaplin | |
Playwriting |
The critics suppose that it is easy to write a play. They aren't aware that writing a good play is difficult and writing a bad one is twice as hard. |
Anton | Chekhov | The Audience Book of Theatre Quotations, by Louis Phillips |
Playwriting |
I swear fearfully at the conventions of the stage. |
Anton | Chekhov | The Audience Book of Theatre Quotations, by Louis Phillips |
Playwriting |
If there is a gun hanging on the wall in the first act, it must fire in the last. |
Anton | Chekhov | http://www.ag.wastholm.net/category/art |