#Theatre Quotes

“If we shadows have offended, Think but this, and all is mended, That you have but slumbered here While these visions did appear. And this weak and idle theme, No more yielding but a dream, Gentles, do not reprehend: If you pardon, we will mend: And, as I am an honest Puck, If we have unearned luck Now to 'scape the serpent's tongue, We will make amends ere long; Else the Puck a liar call; So, good night unto you all. Give me your hands, if we be friends, And Robin shall restore amends.”

“Players and painted stage took all my love, And not those things that they were emblems of.”

“Broadway is a main artery of New York life - the hardened artery.”

“He (Alexander Woollcott) always praises the first production of each season, being reluctant to stone the first cast.”

“In designing the scenery and costumes for any of Shakespeare's plays, the first thing the artist has to settle is the best date for the drama. This should be determined by the general spirit of the play more than by any actual historical references which may occur in it.”

“I love acting. It is so much more real than life.”

“It was only in the theatre that I lived”

“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.”

“The stage is not merely the meeting place of all the arts, but is also the return of art to life.”

“I did six Broadway shows, and I noticed there weren't many female comedians. When I went to a dancing audition, there were 1,000 girls. And there were three jobs. So I said I'll just try comedy. And I loved it.”

“I started taking ballet lessons when I was 4, and I was performing in ballet companies when I was 10, and I did summer stock in Miami Beach when I was 12, and finally I said, 'I gotta go to Broadway.'”

“English plays, Atrocious in content, Absurd in form, Objectionable in action, Execrable EnglishTheatre.”

“The theatre, when all is said and done, is not life in miniature, but life enormously magnified, life hideously exaggerated.”

“Fanny! You are killing me!" "No man dies of love but on the stage, Mr. Crawford.”

“It being a remarkable fact in theatrical history, but one long since established beyond dispute, that it is a hopeless endeavor to attract people to a theatre unless they can be first brought to believe that they will never get in.”

“I am in the theatrical profession myself, my wife is in the theatrical profession, my children are in the theatrical profession.I had a dog that lived and died in it from a puppy; and my chaise-pony goes on, in Timour the Tartar.”