Free speech means the right to shout 'theatre' in a crowded fire.
Abbie Hoffman

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

I think theatre should always be somewhat suspect.
Vaclav Havel

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.'
Thornton Wilder

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

There are a few directors around who I have some excitement about spending my $7 at the theatre watching their movies.
Sean Penn

You know, this isn't theatre like it used to be.
Katherine Dunham

At the University of Maryland, my first year I started off planning to major in art because I was interested in theatre design, stage design or television design.
Jim Henson

I was very interested in theatre, mostly in stage design. I did a little bit of acting.
Jim Henson

Make them laugh, make them cry, and hack to laughter. What do people go to the theatre for? An emotional exercise. I am a servant of the people. I have never forgotten that.
Mary Pickford

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

What I'm trying to do is find either existing properties or come up with properties or angles or stories which will create music drama. It's my obsession and most of all I would like to remain working in theatre. I think it's very much alive.
Pete Townshend

Early British pop was helped tremendously by the writing of Bob Dylan who had proved you could write about political and quite controversial subjects. Certainly what we did followed on from what was happening with the angry young men in the theatre.
Pete Townshend

What theatre started to look at much earlier than any other form was the internal operations of ordinary people, sometimes using mythic models in order to tell the story.
Pete Townshend

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

You really, really, really have to love what you are going to do in theatre because it is an unmerciful life. It's six days a week. It's eight performances a week. And that's doing the exact same thing over and over and over again.
Harvey Fierstein

Also, if you want to reach people, theatre is not always the best way to do it.
Harvey Fierstein

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

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

Judi Dench and Ian McKellen taught me how to work hard and respect the theatre.
Francesca Annis