We're actors — we're the opposite of people!

HENSLOWE: Mr. Fennyman, let me explain about the theatre business. The natural condition is one of insurmountable obstacles on the road to imminent disaster. Believe me, to be closed by the plague is a bagatelle in the ups and downs of owning a theatre. FENNYMAN: So what do we do?HENSLOWE: Nothing. Strangely enough, it all turns out well.FENNYMAN: How? HENSLOWE: I don't know, it's a mystery.

We do on stage things that are supposed to happen off. Which is a kind of integrity, if you look on every exit as being an entrance somewhere else.

Theatre is a series of insurmountable obstacles on the road to imminent disaster.