Theatre Quotes
For use in newsletters, season or fundraising brochures or emails, presentations--you name it.
| Category | Quote | First | Last |
Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| General |
There is no greater gift that a person can be given than to be put in touch with his creativity. [Theatre] transformed my life. [Director Declan Donnellan on discovering theatre as a lonely 16 year old.] |
Declan | Donnellan | The Guardian |
| Lighting |
Lights are to drama what music is to the lyrics of a song. The greatest part of my success in the theatre I attribute to my feeling for colors, translated into effects of light. |
David | Belasco | The Audience Book of Theatre Quotations, by Louis Phillips |
| Lighting |
Lighting paperwork is a living thing, continually evolving throughout the production process until opening night. |
Anne E. | McMills | The Assistant Light Designer's Toolkit |
| Set Design |
Theatrical design is different from many other art forms in that it is a collaborative art. No one theatre artist works independently to create a performance. |
Kaoime | Malloy | The Art of Theatrical Design |
| Acting |
Having talent is like having blue eyes. You don't admire a man for the colour of his eyes. I admire a man for what he does with his talent. |
Anthony | Quinn | Sunday Express, 1960 |
