Theatre Quotes

In the theatre, the actor is in total control. The director wasn't in the house last night, the designer wasn't there, the author's dead. It's just us and the audience.

I swear fearfully at the conventions of the stage.

One begins with two people on a stage, and one of them had better say something pretty quick.

A good many young writers make the mistake of enclosing a stamped, self-addressed envelope big enough for the manuscript to come back in. This is too much of a temptation.

It's hard enough for me to write what I want to write without me trying to write what you say they want me to write which I don't want to write.

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.

If the nature of human experience changes with the color of a man's skin, then the racists have been right all along.

The more acute the experience, the less articulate its expression.

This is an extremely foolish and stupid and idiotic kind of attitude--to expect theatres to make money. Do the public schools make money? Do libraries make money? Does the zoo make money? Do the sewers make money? It's a community service.