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Theatre Quotes

It is not theatre that is indispensable, but something quite different. To cross the frontiers between you and me Picture Quote #1

For me, filmmaking combines everything. That’s the reason I’ve made cinema my life’s work. In films, painting and literature, theatre and music come together. But a film is still a film Picture Quote #1

I have always added dance to my productions. When I was directing theatre, I added dance sequences where they didn’t exist in the play. I think dance is the ultimate form of expression Picture Quote #1

To enter a theatre for a performance is to be inducted into a magical space, to be ushered into the sacred arena of the imagination Picture Quote #1

In the theatre, every form once born is mortal; every form must be reconceived, and its new conception will bear the marks of all the influences that surround it Picture Quote #1

I can take any empty space and call it a bare stage. A man walks across this empty space, whilst someone else is watching him, and this is all that is needed for an act of theatre to be engaged Picture Quote #1

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I detest literature. I abominate the theatre. I have a horror of culture. I am only interested in magic! Picture Quote #1

When I play, I feel like in a theatre, why should I look ugly then, because I’m a tennis player? Picture Quote #1

You must not think of yourself as looking at the stage from the audience. You must think of it as theatre in the round and look at it from all sides Picture Quote #1

Good theatre draws the energies out of the place where it is and gives it back as joie de vivre Picture Quote #1

Theatre is a form of knowledge; it should and can also be a means of transforming society. Theatre can help us build our future, rather than just waiting for it Picture Quote #1

Learning to write for the theatre is learning to be a human being, because the theatre by its very nature makes you deal with other human beings Picture Quote #1

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Often actors ask me if I think they should go on trying to be an actor.I have the same answer for everyone who asks: If you have a choice and could reasonably be happy doing something else, by all means go at once and do something else. Acting or writing or directing in the theatre or television or screen is only for the irrecoverably diseased, those who are so smitten with the need that there is no choice Picture Quote #1

Movies will make you famous; Television will make you rich; But theatre will make you good Picture Quote #1

The primary function of a theatre is not to please itself, or even to please its audience. It is to serve talent Picture Quote #1

As fascinated as I was by words on paper, it was matched by my fascination with words in people’s mouths. The spoken word. And that is the world of theatre Picture Quote #1

After a theatre run, it took me a long time to start drinking again during the day Picture Quote #1

Ultimately, theatre takes place in the minds of the audience: they all imagine the same thing at the same time Picture Quote #1

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Theatre artists are essentially sort of charlatans and thieves, I mean that’s the tradition that we come from, so I have absolutely no, I make no bones about the fact that I steal from here and I take from there, and we all do it, that’s perfectly all right, that’s the nothing, there’s nothing new in the world, there’s nothing actually new in the way that you do something, but the point is is how do you take something and use it to articulate what is essentially a core of any given theatrical production Picture Quote #1

The only way that you can keep moving forward, finding other ways of expressing things about this increasingly complicated world that we live in, is by listening and observing not only to life around you but to the other people who are in the room. It’s not about a sort of, you know, a sense that you have to be democratic about these things, it’s a question of creativity that the process of making theatre is a collaborative process, and it is not in, it is not a question of, you know, I have no interest in paying lip service to it, for me it’s absolutely fundamental Picture Quote #1

I can’t remember a single year of my life when I haven’t made a piece of theatre Picture Quote #1

The theatre, like the fresco, is art fitted to its place. And therefore it is above all else the human art, the living art Picture Quote #1

It is through you, actors, that the forces which are understood by millions and that tell of everything that is beautiful on earth, find expression. The forces which reveal to people the happiness of living in a widened consciousness and in the joy of creative work for the whole world. You, the actors of a theatre, which is one of the centres of human culture, will never be understood by the people if you are unable to reflect the spiritual needs of your time, the now in which you are living Picture Quote #1

Before our eyes is fought a battle of symbols... for there can be theatre only from the moment when the impossible really begins and when the poetry that occurs on the stage sustains and superheats the realized symbols Picture Quote #1

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Theatre is not supposed to represent psychology but passions, which is totally different. Its role is to represent the soul’s different emotional states, and those of the mind, the world history Picture Quote #1

Theatre is very much concerned with the society, with the social situation... A theatre piece of itself, demands a confrontation with the audience. It demands that you connect with people; it demands a collective and social effort with the company and later with the audience Picture Quote #1

You weren’t going to the theatre to change the world, but you had a chance to affect the world, the thinking and the feelings of the world Picture Quote #1

The purpose of theatre is... making an event in which a group of fragments are sudde nly brought together... in a community which, by the natural laws that make every community, gradually breaks up... At certain moments this fragmented world comes together and for a certain time it can rediscover the marvel of organic life... The marvel of being one Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

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It is not theatre that is indispensable, but something quite different. To cross the frontiers between you and me (Theatre Quotes) For me, filmmaking combines everything. That’s the reason I’ve made cinema my life’s work. In films, painting and literature, theatre and music come together. But a film is still a film (Theatre Quotes) I have always added dance to my productions. When I was directing theatre, I added dance sequences where they didn’t exist in the play. I think dance is the ultimate form of expression (Theatre Quotes) To enter a theatre for a performance is to be inducted into a magical space, to be ushered into the sacred arena of the imagination (Theatre Quotes) In the theatre, every form once born is mortal; every form must be reconceived, and its new conception will bear the marks of all the influences that surround it (Theatre Quotes) I can take any empty space and call it a bare stage. A man walks across this empty space, whilst someone else is watching him, and this is all that is needed for an act of theatre to be engaged (Theatre Quotes) I detest literature. I abominate the theatre. I have a horror of culture. I am only interested in magic! (Theatre Quotes) When I play, I feel like in a theatre, why should I look ugly then, because I’m a tennis player? (Theatre Quotes) You must not think of yourself as looking at the stage from the audience. You must think of it as theatre in the round and look at it from all sides (Theatre Quotes) Good theatre draws the energies out of the place where it is and gives it back as joie de vivre (Theatre Quotes) Theatre is a form of knowledge; it should and can also be a means of transforming society. Theatre can help us build our future, rather than just waiting for it (Theatre Quotes) Learning to write for the theatre is learning to be a human being, because the theatre by its very nature makes you deal with other human beings (Theatre Quotes) Often actors ask me if I think they should go on trying to be an actor.I have the same answer for everyone who asks: If you have a choice and could reasonably be happy doing something else, by all means go at once and do something else. Acting or writing or directing in the theatre or television or screen is only for the irrecoverably diseased, those who are so smitten with the need that there is no choice (Theatre Quotes) Movies will make you famous; Television will make you rich; But theatre will make you good (Theatre Quotes) The primary function of a theatre is not to please itself, or even to please its audience. It is to serve talent (Theatre Quotes) As fascinated as I was by words on paper, it was matched by my fascination with words in people’s mouths. The spoken word. And that is the world of theatre (Theatre Quotes) After a theatre run, it took me a long time to start drinking again during the day (Theatre Quotes) Ultimately, theatre takes place in the minds of the audience: they all imagine the same thing at the same time (Theatre Quotes) Theatre artists are essentially sort of charlatans and thieves, I mean that’s the tradition that we come from, so I have absolutely no, I make no bones about the fact that I steal from here and I take from there, and we all do it, that’s perfectly all right, that’s the nothing, there’s nothing new in the world, there’s nothing actually new in the way that you do something, but the point is is how do you take something and use it to articulate what is essentially a core of any given theatrical production (Theatre Quotes) The only way that you can keep moving forward, finding other ways of expressing things about this increasingly complicated world that we live in, is by listening and observing not only to life around you but to the other people who are in the room. It’s not about a sort of, you know, a sense that you have to be democratic about these things, it’s a question of creativity that the process of making theatre is a collaborative process, and it is not in, it is not a question of, you know, I have no interest in paying lip service to it, for me it’s absolutely fundamental (Theatre Quotes) I can’t remember a single year of my life when I haven’t made a piece of theatre (Theatre Quotes) The theatre, like the fresco, is art fitted to its place. And therefore it is above all else the human art, the living art (Theatre Quotes) It is through you, actors, that the forces which are understood by millions and that tell of everything that is beautiful on earth, find expression. The forces which reveal to people the happiness of living in a widened consciousness and in the joy of creative work for the whole world. You, the actors of a theatre, which is one of the centres of human culture, will never be understood by the people if you are unable to reflect the spiritual needs of your time, the now in which you are living (Theatre Quotes) Before our eyes is fought a battle of symbols... for there can be theatre only from the moment when the impossible really begins and when the poetry that occurs on the stage sustains and superheats the realized symbols (Theatre Quotes) Theatre is not supposed to represent psychology but passions, which is totally different. Its role is to represent the soul’s different emotional states, and those of the mind, the world history (Theatre Quotes) Theatre is very much concerned with the society, with the social situation... A theatre piece of itself, demands a confrontation with the audience. It demands that you connect with people; it demands a collective and social effort with the company and later with the audience (Theatre Quotes) You weren’t going to the theatre to change the world, but you had a chance to affect the world, the thinking and the feelings of the world (Theatre Quotes) The purpose of theatre is... making an event in which a group of fragments are sudde nly brought together... in a community which, by the natural laws that make every community, gradually breaks up... At certain moments this fragmented world comes together and for a certain time it can rediscover the marvel of organic life... The marvel of being one (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 (Theatre Quotes) 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 (Theatre Quotes)

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