Theatre Quotes
For use in newsletters, season or fundraising brochures or emails, presentations--you name it.
| Category | Quote | First | Last |
Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Acting |
A great actor is independent of the poet, because the supreme essence of feeling does not reside in prose or in verse, but in the accent with which it is delivered. |
Lee | Strasberg | |
| Acting |
The actor creates with his own flesh and blood all those things which all the arts try in some way to describe. |
Lee | Strasberg | |
| Acting |
Actors cannot choose the manner in which they are born. Consequently, it is the one gesture in their lives completely devoid of self-consciousness. |
Helen | Hayes | |
| Acting |
Actors work and slave and it is the color of your hair that can determine your fate in the end. |
Helen | Hayes | |
| Acting |
The worst constructed play is a Bach fugue when compared to life. |
Helen | Hayes | |
| Acting |
I'm a bad liar; I don't know what to say backstage. |
Uta | Hagen | |
| Acting |
Once in awhile, there's stuff that makes me say, That's what theatre's about. It has to be a human event on the stage, and that doesn't happen very often. |
Uta | Hagen | |
| Acting |
I love playing Chekhov. That's the hardest; that's why I love it most. |
Uta | Hagen | |
| General |
Charity in the theater begins and ends with those who have a play opening within a week of one's own. |
Moss | Hart | |
| Acting |
I don't make mistakes, I have unintentional improvisations. |
Anonymous |
