312 Quotes About Plays

When I can't see myself I begin to wonder if I really and truly exist. I pat myself just to make sure, but it doesn't help much.

We can see the film stars of yesterday in yesterday’s films, hear the voices of poest and singers on a record, keep the plays of dead dramatists upon our bookshelves, but the actor who holds his audience captive for one brief moment upon a lighted stage vanishes forever when the curtain falls.

Directing teenage actors is like juggling jars of nitro-glycerine: exhilarating and dangerous.

It isn’t real, none of it is, but it’s bearable. Isn’t it pathetic the only way some can tolerate existence is by faking one? The effort to entertain is a happy one. It’s the need to do it that’s so damn sad.

It is not enough to discover the secret of a play, its thought and feelings—the actor must be able to convert them into living terms.

The play was a great success, but the audience was a disaster.

Never to be squandered.....the miracle of another human being.

Each person must implement their preferred problem solving method to address existential questions pertaining to life and death, living and loving, working and playing, resting and restructuring.

The plays should have the half-life of plutonium.