455 Quotes About Theatre

Average acting is like jerking without an orgasm.

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.

I love it when you go to see something, and you enter as an individual, and you leave as a group. Because you've all been bound together by the same experience.

The gateway to the underworld is seen as part antiquity and part theatre. Welcome to the lower depths.

As Violet and Klaus Baudelaire stood, still in their nightgown and pajamas, backstage at Count Olaf’s theater, they were of two minds, a phrase which here means “they felt two different ways at the same time.” On one hand, they were of course filled with dread.…On the other hand, however, they were fascinated, as they had never been backstage at a theatrical production and there was so much to see.

Acting is in everything but the words.

Your job as actors is to understand the size of what you say, to understand what's beneath the word.

When you most succeed, you do so by seeming not to act at all.

Tell yourself that the world is outside, that it's not to be hidden from you, that you are going to thrust yourself forward and be relaxed in the world. You have chosen a field where you're going to be hurt to the blood. But to retreat from the pain is death