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If these theatres didn't exist, the tradition of British theatre would cease to exist.


David Soul


#cease #cease to exist #exist #theatre #theatres

The truth, the absolute truth, is that the chief beauty for the theatre consists in fine bodily proportions.


Sarah Bernhardt


#absolute truth #beauty #bodily #chief #consists

This film business, perhaps more so in America than in Europe, has always been about young sexuality. It's not true of theatre, but in America, film audiences are young. It's not an intellectual cinema in America.


Jacqueline Bisset


#always #america #audiences #been #business

I was doing a show at the National Youth Theatre, playing an old man. Before that I had played fat clowns and I thought, 'If I want to have the career I would like, I am going to have to lose weight.' I was just starting drama school, and found I was moving around a lot. I also started to eat sensibly. The weight just dropped off.


Harry Melling


#am #around #before #career #clowns

Theatres are curious places, magician's trick-boxes where the golden memories of dramtic triumphs linger like nostalgic ghosts, and where the unexplainable, the fantastic, the tragic, the comic and the absurd are routine occurences on and off the stage. Murders, mayhem, politcal intrigue, lucrative business, secret assignations, and of course, dinner.


E.A. Bucchianeri


#actors #dinner #drama #dramatic #fantastic

I am so far as I am aware not at all influenced by dramatists, expect for Shakespeare, who I have to say, it is impossible not to be influenced by if you hold language to be the major element of theatre.


Howard Barker


#aware #dramatists #element #expect #far

We are suffocated by writers who want to enlighten us with their truths. For me, the theatre is beautiful because it is a secret, and secrets seduce us, we all want to share secrets.


Howard Barker


#because #enlighten #me #secret #secrets

Theatre director: a person engaged by the management to conceal the fact that the players cannot act.


James Agate


#cannot #conceal #director #engaged #fact

Life is a theatre set in which there are but few practicable entrances.


Victor Hugo


#life

I long for the simplicity of theatre. I want lessons learned, comeuppances delivered, people sorted out, all before your bladder gets distractingly full. That's what I want. What I know is what we all know, whether we'll admit it or not: every attempt to impose the roundness of a well-made play on reality produces a disaster. Life just isn't so, nor will it be made so.


John M. Ford


#simplicity #theatre #life