Theatre Quotes
For use in newsletters, season or fundraising brochures or emails, presentations--you name it.
| Category | Quote | First |
Last |
Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Playwriting |
Every writer is a frustrated actor who recites his lines in the hidden auditorium of his skull. |
Rod | Serling | http://www.brainyquote.com |
| Acting |
The Actor should make you forget the existence of author and director, and even forget the actor. |
Paul | Scofield | The Audience Book of Theatre Quotations, by Louis Phillips |
| Management, Volunteers |
I consider my ability to arouse enthusiasm among my people the greatest asset I possess, and the way to develop the best that is in a person is by appreciation and encouragement. |
Charles | Schwab | |
| General |
Good theater anywhere is good for theater everywhere. |
Frank | Schneeberger | www.angelfire.com/dc/musicthea/Quotes.html |
| Playwriting |
Good drama must be drastic. |
Friedrich | Schlegel | |
| Fundraising |
Fundraising is the gentle art of teaching the joy of giving. |
Hank | Russo | |
| Acting |
Acting is standing up naked and turning around very slowly. |
Rosalind | Russell | The Audience Book of Theatre Quotations, by Louis Phillips |
| General |
The world is a complicated place, and there's a lot of division between people. The performing arts tend to unify people in a way nothing else does. |
David | Rubenstein | |
| Directing, Diversity & Inclusion, Management |
A diversity of voices is inherently innovative—the form of theatre changes depending on who is telling the story. By investing in diversifying the voices that are amplified through live theatre, we are contributing to the growth of the art form. |
Round House Theatre |
Round House Theatre statement on Equity, Diversity, Inclusion, and Accessibility [ https://www.roundhousetheatre.org/About/Equity,-Diversity,-and-Inclusion ] |
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| General |
The theatre, like the fresco, is art fitted to its place. And therefore it is above all else the human art, the living art. |
Roman | Rolland | http://www.wisdomportal.com/Quotes |
