Theatre Quotes

I learned acting by doing it. And although I had never taken an acting class, it didn't take long to learn how to be on the stage. All you have to do is to be humiliated in front of an audience a few times. If you don't like being humiliated publicly, you learn how to act.

Playwriting isn't a calling so much as it is a hazing process.

It is the characteristic of the most stringent censorships that they give credibility to the opinions they attack.

The artistic director gratifies his special need to relate to people in a highly accentuated paternalistic and maternalistic fashion.

It isn't what I do, but how I do it. It isn't what I say but how I say it - and how I look when I do and say it.

The stage is not merely the meeting place of all the arts, but is also the return of art to life.

I love acting. It is so much more real than life.

An actor entering through the door, you've got nothing. But if he enters through the window, you've got a situation.

Lighting design is ultimately not about numbers and calculations. It is about feelings and spontaneous reactions. Although the designer can calculate how 'big and bright' a fixture will be at any distance, from the manufacturer's data sheet, eventually he must just instinctively 'know', how a specific fixture will perform at any distance. This comes from both practice and experience.