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Quotes about Theater


ELBONICS: Two people maneuvering for one armrest in a theater.

Elbonics: Two people maneuvering for one armrest in a movie theater.

Elbonics: Two people maneuvering for one armrest in a movie theater.

Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.

Gail Godwin

No more duty can be urged upon those who are entering the great theater of life than simple loyalty to their best convictions.

Edwin Hubbel Chapin

A man can be a hero if he is a scientist, or a soldier, or a drug addict, or a disc jockey, or a crummy mediocre politician. A man can be a hero because he suffers and despairs; or because he thinks logically and analytically; or because he is "sensitive;" or because he is cruel. Wealth establishes a man as a hero, and so does poverty. Virtually any circumstance in a man's life will make him a hero to some group of people and has a mythic rendering in the culture—in literature, art, theater, or the daily newspapers.

Andrea Dworkin

In this theater of man's life, it is reserved only for God and angels to be lookers-on.

Thomas Pythagoras

Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.

Russell Green

I'm married to the theater but my mistress is the films.

Oskar Werner

Whatever is done without ostentation, and without the people being witnesses of it, is, in my opinion, most praiseworthy: not that the public eye should be entirely avoided, for good actions desire to be placed in the light; but notwithstanding this, the greatest theater for virtue is conscience.

William Cicero

Boxing has become America's tragic theater.

Joyce Carol Oates

Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.

James Anthony Froude

We are in the black theater of nonexistence. In an eye blink the curtain is up, the stage ablaze, for the vast drama of ourselves.

Herman Wouk

The primary function of a theater is not to please itself, or even to please its audience. It is to serve talent.

Robert Brustein

Coughing in the theater is not a respiratory ailment. It is a criticism.

Alan Jay Lerner

Theatergoing is a communal act, movie going a solitary one.

Robert Brustein

What the American public wants in the theater is a tragedy with a happy ending.

William D. Howells

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