Theatre Quotes

It is the writer's job to make the play interesting. It is the actor's job to make the performance truthful.

I've never quite understood the idea of a "season." Whenever an artistic director says to me, 'I have this slot,' I always start to feel we're parking cars or something.

Actors ought to be larger than life. You come across quite enough ordinary, nondescript people in daily life and I don't see why you should be subjected to them on the stage too.

If you cried a little less, the audience would cry more.

The thing that makes a creative person is to be creative and that is all there is to it.

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

Audiences are not strangers to me. They're the best friends I've got in my life.

These performers that go on about their technique and craft - oh, puleeze! How boring! I don't know what 'technique' means. But I do know what experience is.

To save the theatre, the theatre must be destroyed, the actors and actresses must all die of the plague. They poison the air, they make art impossible. It is not drama that they play, but pieces for the theatre. We should return to the Greeks, play in the open air; the drama dies of stalls and boxes and evening dress, and people who come to digest their dinner.