"He who would be a man must therefore be a non-conformist."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on Conventionality
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"Compare the cinema with theatre. Both are dramatic arts. Theatre brings actors before a public and every night during the season they re-enact the same drama. Deep in the nature of theatre is a sense of ritual. The cinema, by contrast, transports its audience individually, singly, out of the theatre towards the unknown."

Berger, John on Entertainment
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"I submit all my plays to the National Theatre for rejection. To assure myself I am seeing clearly."

Barker, Howard on Theater
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"My playground was the theatre. I'd sit and watch my mother pretend for a living. As a young girl, that's pretty seductive."

Paltrow, Gwyneth on Theater
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"A good drama critic is one who perceives what is happening in the theatre of his time. A great drama critic also perceives what is not happening."

Tynan, Kenneth on Critics and Criticism
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"For the theatre one needs long arms; it is better to have them too long than too short. An artiste with short arms can never, never make a fine gesture."

Bernhardt, Sarah on Acting and Actors
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"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."

Wilder, Thornton on Acting and Actors
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