Quotes about theater

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"The theater needs continual reminders that there is nothing more debasing than the work of those who do well what is not worth doing at all."

Vidal, Gore on theater

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"I want to give the audience a hint of a scene. No more than that. Give them too much and they won't contribute anything themselves. Give them just a suggestion and you get them working with you. That's what gives the theater meaning: when it becomes a social act."

Welles, Orson on theater

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

Wilde, Oscar on theater
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"A dramatist is one who believes that the pure event, an action involving human beings, is more arresting than any comment that can be made upon it."

Wilder, Thornton on theater

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"The theatre is supremely fitted to say: Behold! These things are. Yet most dramatists employ it to say: This moral truth can be learned from beholding this action."

Wilder, Thornton on theater

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"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."

Winters, Shelley on theater