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.
Oscar Wilde

It's one of the tragic ironies of the theatre that only one man in it can count on steady work - the night watchman.
Tallulah Bankhead

What is a wife and what is a harlot? What is a church and what is a theatre? are they two and not one? Can they exist separate? Are not religion and politics the same thing? Brotherhood is religion. O demonstrations of reason dividing families in cruelty and pride!
William Blake

The good die young but not always. The wicked prevail but not consistently. I am confused by life, and I feel safe within the confines of the theatre.
Helen Hayes

Yeah, well I've always played comedy. My background is musical comedy theatre and that's really where my training is. As an actor, that's my training.
Christopher Walken

But men must know, that in this theatre of man's life it is reserved only for God and angels to be lookers on.
Francis Bacon

A good film is when the price of the dinner, the theatre admission and the babysitter were worth it.
Alfred Hitchcock

All the best performers bring to their role something more, something different than what the author put on paper. That's what makes theatre live. That's why it persists.
Stephen Sondheim

My father's parents were carpenters. They were also builders partly. They were painters. And several of them were very, active in the theatre and all such nonsense, you know.
Josef Albers

A theatre receives recognition through its initiative, which is indispensable for first-rate performances.
Franz Liszt

Once in awhile, there's stuff that makes me say, That's what theatre's about. It has to be a human event on the stage, and that doesn't happen very often.
Uta Hagen

My playground was the theatre. I'd sit and watch my mother pretend for a living. As a young girl, that's pretty seductive.
Gwyneth Paltrow

I think, by and large, the level of acting is mediocre. When I go to the theatre, I get so angry. I don't go.
Uta Hagen

I like simple things. I like to sneak in the theatre and watch movies. I'm a movie buff.
Justin Timberlake

What I want to give in the theatre is beauty, that's what I want to give.
Dame Edith Evans

Yes, it is a rehearsed show, yes, it was analogy of going to see a play at the theatre, where everything has to be in place and whole things, everything being works, all works together to get the best effect you know it's more like an actor learning a part.
John Deacon

My plan is to have a theatre in some small town or something and I'll be manager. Ill be the crazy old movie guy.
Quentin Tarantino

The pit of a theatre is the one place where the tears of virtuous and wicked men alike are mingled.
Denis Diderot

I have the terrible feeling that, because I am wearing a white beard and am sitting in the back of the theatre, you expect me to tell you the truth about something. These are the cheap seats, not Mount Sinai.
Orson Welles

Well, I've always thought that my career was in England, really. I used to do more in the theatre, and I felt that I should be there. It's not far is it? It's amazing the way that special FX have taken a quantum leap in what they're capable of doing.
Albert Finney