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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on conventionality    Share


"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    Share

"I submit all my plays to the National Theatre for rejection. To assure myself I am seeing clearly."

Barker, Howard on theater    Share

"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    Share

"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 criticism    Share

"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    Share

"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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