Theatre Quotes

The most important thing you can teach actors is to understand plays.

The word theatre comes from the Greeks. It means the seeing place. It is the place people come to see the truth about life and the social situation.

The theatre was created to tell people the truth about life and the social situation.

January, month of empty pockets! Let us endure this evil month, anxious as a theatrical producer's forehead.

We've put a man on the moon. If you miss a cue, no one will die.

I haven't really written my plays and books -- I've heard them. The stories are there already, singing in your genes and in your blood.

When you go into the professional world, at a stock theater somewhere, backstage you will meet an older actor--someone who has been around awhile. He will tell you tales and anecdotes about life in the theater. He will speak to you about your performance and the performances of others, and he will generalize to you, based on his experience and his intuitions, about the laws of the stage. Ignore this man.

You can't learn to act unless you're criticized. If you tie that criticism to your childhood insecurities you'll have a terrible time. Instead, you must take criticism objectively, pertaining it only to the work being done.

The appearance and retirement of actors are the great events of the theatrical world; and their first performances fill the pit with conjecture and prognostication, as the first actions of a new monarch agitate nations with hope and fear.