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Favorite Theatre Quote?

  • 1.  Favorite Theatre Quote?

    Posted 01-06-2014 13:29
    I'm working on a project with a friend and I need some good theatre quotes. What's your favorite? I've always connected with one by Oscar Wilde, "I love acting - it is so much more real than life."

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    Ginny Butsch
    Community Manager
    Educational Theatre Association


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  • 2.  RE:Favorite Theatre Quote?

    Posted 01-06-2014 17:06
    Ginny,
    I have attached a list of arts quotes that I have used for a variety of purposes, but some of my favorites I have listed below!

     "Art is the only way to run away without leaving home." -  Twyla Tharp

    "Life beats down and crushes the soul and art reminds you that you have one." - Stella Adler

    "The arts are an even better barometer of what is happening in our world than the stock market or the debates in congress." Hendrick Willem Van Loon

    "To live a creative life, we must lose our fear of being wrong."  Joseph Chilton Pearce

    "A play should make you understand something new. If it tells you what you already know, you leave it as ignorant as when you went in."
    - Our Country's Good, Act II, Scene 7


    All my best!
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  • 3.  RE:Favorite Theatre Quote?

    Posted 01-07-2014 10:15
    "Love the art in yourself, not yourself in the art."

    "More Theatre, Less Drama!"

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    Julie Woffington
    Executive Director
    Educational Theatre Association


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  • 4.  RE:Favorite Theatre Quote?

    Posted 01-07-2014 10:46


    "A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool"
    - William Shakespeare "As You Like It", Act 5 Scene 1

    "You bet I arrived overnight. Over a few hundred nights in the catskills, vaudeville, in clubs, and on Broadway." - Danny Kaye

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

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    Shira Schwartz
    Chandler Unified School District


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  • 5.  RE:Favorite Theatre Quote?

    Posted 01-08-2014 17:45
    Here are a few that always resonate with actors and Theatre students, but which don't speak of "Theatre". " We create the present from the future against the backdrop of the past." "the creative adult is the child who has survived." "It is good to have an end to journey toward, but it is the journey that matters in the end." " It is the artist who is capable of being in uncertainties, mysteries, doubts, without any irritable reaching for facts and reason..." Keats "Those who don't know history are destined to repeat it." Edmund Burke "I hear and I forget I see and I remember I do and I understand". The Nuffield Math Project " Our roles in life change. Time is the great casting director.." "Ego is always thinking about what others are thinking of it." "Don't allow your past to kidnap your future." "Strength is not the absence of weakness, but how we wrestle with our weaknesses." "Ego is always thinking about what others are thinking of it." Noah benShea "The only journey worth taking is the journey within" "Basic science: Energy cannot be created or destroyed, just transformed". Shirley MacLaine ------------------------------------------- Anita Grant Texas Thespians Exec. Board. Staff Trainer, Children's Museum of Houston -------------------------------------------
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  • 6.  RE:Favorite Theatre Quote?

    Posted 01-07-2014 11:14
    Every exit is an entrance somewhere else. Tom Stoppard

    Choosing to be in the theatre was a way to put my roots down somewhere with other people. It was a way to choose a new family.   Juliette Binoche


    Every now and then, when you're on stage, you hear the best sound a player can hear. It's a sound you can't get in movies or in television. It is the sound of a wonderful, deep silence that means you've hit them where they live.  Shelley Winters 



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    Kimberly Staples
    Theatre Director
    Buford City Schools


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  • 7.  RE:Favorite Theatre Quote?

    Posted 01-07-2014 16:06

    "Theater has to resonate in your heart in a way that movies don't." -Harvey Fierstein


    "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." - Oscar Wilde


    The most magical moment in the theater is a silence so complete that you can't even hear people breathe. It means that you've got them.-Hume Cronyn

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    Katie Siegel
    ITO Chair

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  • 8.  RE:Favorite Theatre Quote?

    Posted 01-07-2014 21:10
    "Oh, for a muse of fire that would ascend the brightest heaven of invention.   A kingdom for a stage, princes to act, and monarchs to behold the swelling scene."  W.S.

    "Find your light, Say your Line."  Slings and Arrows (a great TV show)

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  • 9.  RE:Favorite Theatre Quote?

    Posted 01-08-2014 00:10

     

    "Let me explain about the theatre business.  The natural condition is one of insurmountable obstacles on the road to imminent disaster . . ."

    "So, what do we do?"

    "Nothing. Strangely enough, it all turns out well."

    "How?"

    "I don't know.  It's a mystery.

     

    --Shakespeare in Love (screenwriter Tom Stoppard)



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    Ben Martin
    Past Board Of Trustees

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  • 10.  RE:Favorite Theatre Quote?

    Posted 01-09-2014 07:19
    Art is Craft, not Inspiration.
    - Stephen Sondheim

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    Mark Zortman

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  • 11.  RE:Favorite Theatre Quote?

    Posted 01-08-2014 08:11
    "I'm thinking of doing more theatre. It makes me very happy" Rachel Weisz

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    Alex Minton

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  • 12.  Theatre Quote

    Posted 01-10-2014 11:00
    "If you're going to ad lib, dear, write it down." -- Tyne Daly (as told to by Jule Styne

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    Joe Norton
    Dir. Of Education & Outreach
    Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS


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  • 13.  RE:Favorite Theatre Quote?

    Posted 01-13-2014 01:28

    My favorite is actually a letter written by Martha Graham to Agnes De Mille.  One of my acting teachers shared it with us during college and I've been meditating on it and sharing it ever since.  

    A Letter to Agnes De Mille

    There is a vitality,
    a life force,
    a quickening
    that is translated through you into action,
    and because there is only one of you in all time,
    this expression is unique.

    And If you block it, it will never exist through any other medium and be lost.
    The world will not have it. It is not your business to determine
    how good it is
    nor how valuable it is
    nor how it compares with other expressions.

    It is your business to keep it yours clearly and directly
    to keep the channel open.
    You do not even have to believe in yourself or your work.
    You have to keep open and aware directly to the urges that motivate YOU.

    Keep the channel open...
    No artist is pleased...

    There is no satisfaction whatever at anytime
    There is only a queer, divine dissatisfaction
    a blessed unrest that keeps us marching
    and makes "us" MORE alive than the others.

    Martha Graham
    ( - a letter to Agnes De Mille-)

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    Elise Lammers
    Drama Teacher
    Dipont Education Management Group
    Shanghai, China


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  • 14.  RE:Favorite Theatre Quote?

    Posted 01-14-2014 08:09
    Love that letter Elise. I could see that as a poster in every theatre classroom. It speaks volumes. Thanks for sharing. A very motivational way to start my day. Hope yours is awesome too.

    I recite the Thespian motto, "Act well your part. There all the honor lies." a lot to myself. I've shared it with the kids too because it's relevant in every aspect of life and I'm a huge believer in living a life that's honorable in every way.

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    David LaFleche
    Director Of Membership
    Educational Theatre Association


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  • 15.  RE:Favorite Theatre Quote?

    Posted 01-14-2014 11:17
    My favorite theatre quote has always been "The theatre was created to tell the truth about life and a social situation." Stella Adler

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    Sarah Etheridge
    ITO Communications Editor

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  • 16.  RE:Favorite Theatre Quote?

    Posted 01-15-2014 22:24
    "Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none."
    - William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616)

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    Frederick Ballo
    California State Thespians
    Board Member
    - Alumni Coordinator / Representative
    Morgan Hill, CA

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  • 17.  RE:Favorite Theatre Quote?

    Posted 01-16-2014 18:23
    "The director is really like a ringmaster in a circus. You've got all these acts that are coming on. Some are naturally brilliant, some have learned their stuff and some are no good...You're not any more important than any one of those acts. But in order to get those great performances, you have to create an atmosphere where everyone fells completely free to contribute." Phillip Noyce, director of PATRIOT GAMES

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  • 18.  RE:Favorite Theatre Quote?

    Posted 02-10-2014 11:51
    "The most important thing about acting is honesty.  If you can fake that, you've got it made."
    -George Burns

    "A word after a word after a word is power."
    -Margaret Atwood

    "Drama is life, with the dull bits cut out."
    -Alfred Hitchcock



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  • 19.  RE:Favorite Theatre Quote?

    Posted 02-10-2014 12:35

    "I personally would like to bring a tortoise onto the stage, turn it into a racehorse, then into a hat, a song, a dragoon and a fountain of water. One can dare anything in the theatre and it is the place where one dares the least."

     - Eugene Ionesco

    "The theater is a weapon, and it is the people who should wield it."

     - Augusto Boal 



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    Kenneth Buswell
    Drama Teacher

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  • 20.  RE:Favorite Theatre Quote?

    Posted 02-11-2014 09:00
    Fan, upon meeting Michael Caine: "Oh, Mr. Caine. I love your work. I've always wanted to be an actor."
    Caine: "No dear, what you want to be is rich and famous. If you wanted to be an actor, you'd be one."
    (Attributed to Michael Caine, can't prove it)


    "If and when you make it into the profession, you're going to have to work with people you do not like. That is a fact."
       Glen Hetrick

    "Acting is about the exploration of character rather than simply a projection of self."
    Dame Judi Dench

    Be here now.
    -Anon

    "The audience doesn't have a script."
    Scott Piehler
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    Scott Piehler
    Drama Director

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