Theatre Quotes

Every performer has moments of self doubt. The great ones, however,overcome every obstacle to reach their full artistic potential. It takes talent, to be sure, but it also takes a personality that simply will not settle for second best. That's what makes us respect the effort and admire the results.

I think that first nights should come near the end of a play's run--as indeed, they often do.

A talent for drama is not a talent for writing, but is an ability to articulate human relationships.

The only way to see the value of a play is to see it acted.

Talk low, talk slow, and don't say too much.

I want to give the audience a hint of a scene. No more than that. Give them too much and they won't contribute anything themselves. Give them just a suggestion and you get them working with you. That's what gives the theater meaning: when it becomes a social act.

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

I regard the theatre as the greatest of all art forms, the most immediate way in which a human being can share with another the sense of what it is to be a human being.

An actor entering through the door, you've got nothing. But if he enters through the window, you've got a situation.