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... actresses require protection in their art from blind abuse, from savage criticism. Their work... More
... in the happy laughter of a theatre audience one can get the most immediate and numerically... More
... most of all [the actor] will love the boys and girls, the men and women, who sit in the... More
... the modern drama, operating through the double channel of dramatist and interpreter,... More
... the theatre demanded of its members stamina, good digestion, the ability to adjust, and a... More
... there is something shameful about the death of a play. It does not die with pity, but contempt. More
...I have never known a “movement” in the theater that did not work direct and serious harm.... More
A defective voice will always preclude an artist from achieving the complete development of his... More
A dramatic experience concerned with the mundane may inform but it cannot release; and one... More
A dramatist is one who believes that the pure event, an action involving human beings, is more... More
A great many quite good plays could be performed with rhythmic howls in the place of dialogue and... More
A play there is, my lord, some ten words long,
Which is as brief as I have known a... More
A playwright ... is ... the litmus paper of the arts. He’s got to be, because if he isn’t... More
A talent for drama is not a talent for writing, but is an ability to articulate human relationships. More
A tempest cracked on the theatre. Quickly,
The wind beat in the roof and half the... More
Above all, ignore the audience .... More
Actor: Electrician, a little more this way with that spotlight. What are you trying to do, ruin... More
All great amusements are dangerous to the Christian life; but among all those which the world has... More
All the satires of the stage should be viewed without discomfort. They are public mirrors, where... More
All this class of pleasures inspires me with the same nausea as I feel at the sight of rich... More
All tragedies are finished by a death,
All comedies are ended by a marriage. More
An honest appraisal of the respective pleasures derived from theater and cinema, at least as to... More
Analogies between the stage and the screen assume that they deal with the same material. But they... More
Any campaign—like any good drama—will have its stylized performances. So too will it have one... More
As a perfect Tragedy is the noblest Production of human Nature, so it is capable of giving the... More
As in a theatre the eyes of men,
After a well-graced actor leaves the stage,
Are idly... More
At the extreme north, the voyagers are obliged to dance and act plays for employment. More
Balance is the enemy of art. More
Be reflective ... and stay away from the theater as much as you can. Stay out of the theatrical... More
Boxing has become America’s tragic theater. More
But among all our Methods of moving Pity or Terror, there is none so absurd and barbarous, and... More
But pardon, gentles all,
The flat unraised spirits that hath dared
On this unworthy... More
But there is nothing which delights and terrifies our English Theatre so much as a Ghost,... More
By whatever means it is accomplished, the prime business of a play is to arouse the passions of... More
Can this cockpit hold
The vasty fields of France? Or may we cram
Within this wooden O the... More
Come leave the loathed stage,
And the more loathsome age,
Where pride and impudence in... More
Consider the relationship of Hollywood and Broadway. In the twenties, the two were sharply... More
Drama assumes an order. If only so that it might have—by disrupting that order—a way of... More
Drama is based on the Mistake. I think someone is my friend when he really is my enemy, that I am... More
Drama is life with the dull bits cut out. More
Each action of the actor on the stage should be the visible concomitant of his thoughts. More
Every now and then, when you’re on stage, you hear the best sound a player can hear. It’s a... More
Every single night I’m nervous. More
Exit, pursued by a bear. More
Farce is tragedy played at a thousand revolutions per minute. More
For my part, I confess I seldom listen to the players: one has so much to do, in looking about... More
Go into the streets, into the slums, into the fashionable quarters. Go into the day courts and... More
Here’s a marvellous convenient place for our rehearsal. More
Hung be the heavens with black! Yield, day, to night! More
I charge you, O men, for the love you bear to women (as I
perceive by your simpering, none of... More
I cry out for order and find it only in art. More
I enjoyed the courtroom as just another stage—but not so amusing as Broadway. More
I for my sins am going to an afternoon representation of Othello by a German tragedian of some... More
I had learned to have a perfect nausea for the theatre: the continual repetition of the same... More
I had this advantage, at least, in my mode of life, over those who were obliged to look abroad... More
I have come to believe ... that the stage may do more than teach, that much of our current moral... More
I have heard it said that it took Messrs. Shipman and Hymer [the playwrights] just three-... More
I have not carried out experiments to prove it, but may I suggest that people in the theater and... More
I never felt I left the stage. More
I open with a clock striking, to beget an awful attention in the audience—it also marks the... More
I see ... a multitude ... in transport ... of joy. More
I sometimes think when I’m on the stage “What do they mean? Is this great, what I’m doing... More
I submit all my plays to the National Theatre for rejection. To assure myself I am seeing clearly. More
I think theatre should always be somewhat suspect. More
I want to give the audience a hint of a scene. No more than that. Give them too much and they... More
I write plays for people who wouldn’t be seen dead in the theatre. More
Idealistic producing is safe. Sensibly projected in the theater, the fine thing always does pay... More
If a playwright tried to see eye to eye with everybody, he would get the worst case of strabismus... More
If an irreducible distinction between theatre and cinema does exist, it may be this: Theatre is... More
If it be true that good wine needs no bush, ‘tis true that a
good play needs no epilogue. More
If this were played upon a stage now, I could condemn it as an improbable fiction. More
If we shadows have offended,
Think but this, and all is mended,
That you have but... More
If you’re an actor, a real actor, you’ve got to be on the stage. But you mustn’t go on the... More
In a drama of the highest order there is little food for censure or hatred; it teaches rather... More
In a good play every speech should be as fully flavoured as a nut or apple. More
In a play ... a psychological loop is established between performers and audience. Nothing like... More
In the theater the audience is generally riveted to a single angle of observation. The movie... More
Isn’t the greatest rule of all the rules simply to please? More
It had been drilled into us that when an audience pays to see a performance, it is entitled to... More
It hath evermore been the notorious badge of prostituted Strumpets and the lewdest Harlots, to... More
It is a strange enterprise to make respectable people laugh. More
It is in the irony of things that the theatre should be the most dangerous place for the actor.... More
It is not surprising that the motion picture relies to a considerable extent on devices borrowed... More
It’s better to star in Oshkosh than to starve on Broadway. More
It’s one of the tragic ironies of the theater that only one man in it can count on steady... More
Make them laugh, make them cry, and back to laughter. What do people go to the theatre for? An... More
Most of our occupations are low comedy.... We must play our part duly, but as the part of a... More
My chief humor is for a tyrant. I could play Ercles rarely, or a part to tear a cat in, to make... More
My way is to conjure you, and I’ll begin with the women. I
charge you, O women, for the... More
Next we come to the bronchial buster, or the man (it is usually a man) who, being in the throes... More
No epilogue, I pray you; for your play needs no excuse. Never excuse; for when the players are... More
O for a muse of fire, that would ascend
The brightest heaven of invention. More
O Jesu, he doth it as like one of these harlotry players as
ever I see! More
Othello or Nora are definite, substantial figures created by the playwright. They can be played... More
Our art is the finest, the noblest, the most suggestive, for it is the synthesis of all the arts.... More
Our wooing doth not end like an old play.
Jack hath not Jill. More
People whose understanding and taste in literature, painting, and music are beyond question are,... More
Permanent success cannot be achieved except by incessant intellectual labour, always inspired by... More
Play out the play! More
Quince. Marry, our play is “The most lamentable comedy and most cruel death of Pyramus and... More

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