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From the start it has been the theatre’s business to entertain people … it needs no other passport than fun.
BERTOLT BRECHT

Fun People Theatre
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

Act Angry Go Large Level Mediocre Theatre Think
It is a lazy public which promotes a slothful and irresponsible theater.
EDWARD ALBEE

Promote Public Responsibility Theatre
I like the theatre because you paint with broad strokes. To me the theatre is stretching its definition really far.
AJAY NAIDU

Broad Definition Definitions Far Paint Really Stretch Stroke Theatre
When I saw what painting had done in the last thirty years, what literature had done – people like Joyce and Virginia Woolf, Faulkner and Hemingway – in France we have Nathalie Sarraute – and paintings became so strongly contemporary while cinema was just following the path of theater.
AGNES VARDA

Contemporary Country Done Last Literature Painting People Saw Strongly Theatre Virginia Year
There may be a time when we’ll attend Weather Theaters to recall the sensation of rain.
JIM MORRISON

Attend May Rain Sensation Theatre Weather
Before our eyes is fought a battle of symbols, for there can be theatre only from the moment when the impossible really begins and when the poetry that occurs on the stage sustains and superheats the realized symbols.
ANTONIN ARTAUD

Battle Beginning Eyes Impossible Ourselves Realize Stage Symbol Theatre
People cluster to TV, soap operas, movies, theater, pop idols and they have wild emotion over symbols. But in the reality of their own lives, they’re emotionally dead.
JIM MORRISON

Cluster Emotion Idol People Pop Soap Symbol Theatre TV
Like all magic cultures expressed by appropriate hieroglyphs, the true theater has its shadows too, and, of all languages and all arts, the theater is the only one left whose shadows have shattered their limitations.
ANTONIN ARTAUD

Art Culture Expression Language Limitation Magic Oneself Shatter Theatre
What’s this thing that gets between us and Shakespeare?
AL PACINO

Between Person Theatre Thing
I’ve always been singing. Since day one. I started doing musical theater and you have to sing in musical theater and so that’s where I got most of my training.
ZAC EFRON

Always Do Mist Musical Since Sing Start Theatre Training
I’ve been a lavatory attendant, a theatre usher, a panhandler, all for real. Now, as an actor, I can be a journalist today and a brain surgeon tomorrow. That’s the stuff my dreams are made of.
AL PACINO

Actor Dream Journalist Real Stuff Theatre Tomorrow
I grew up in the theatre. It’s where I got my start. Writing a television drama with theatrical dialogue about the theatre is beyond perfection.
AARON SORKIN

Drama Perfection Start Television Theatre Writing
I began as a dramatist in the theater, so I’m always thinking about how a story moves, what it looks like, how to engage the senses.
ADRIANA TRIGIANI

Began Character Dramatist Move Moving Real Story Theatre Think Thinking
I never consciously got into comedy. It was sort of one of those things where I was a theater student, I was acting, I was doing comedy, I was doing dramatic stuff, so it’s been something that I’ve always done and enjoyed doing and had an instinct to be relatively good at.
AASIF MANDVI

Acting Comedy Conscious Done Stuff Theatre Thing
See, there’s only two theaters, man that are set up pretty groovy all around for music and for smooth stage changes, good lighting and all that – the Fillmore and The Capitol Theatre. And those are the only two in the whole country.
JERRY GARCIA

Around Capitol Country Fillmore Grovy Man Pretty Smooth Stage Theatre Whole
Theater people are always pining and agonizing because they’re afraid that they’ll be forgotten. And in America they’re quite right. They will be.
AGNES DE MILLE

Afraid Agonizing Always Aponizing Counrry Country Forgotten People Pining Quite Right Theatre
In an ideal world for me, I would like to go back and forth [between film and theater]. I kind of want to do it all
AARON TVEIT

Back Film Forth Ideal Kind Theatre Want World
I was so scared of going back to the theatre after Hamlet. I didn’t know if I’d do a play again because I was afraid of the power of it.
ALAN CUMMING

Afraid Again Back Go Hamlet Know Power Scare Theatre
Theater is like boxing – having the audience ringside. It’s instant gratification. Or horrification.
SYLVESTER STALLONE

Audience Horrible Instant Theatre
I love doing theater. That’s where my home is.
VANESSA HUDGENS

Home Love Myself Theatre
The thing with film and theater is that you always know the story so you can play certain cues in each scene with the knowledge that you know where the story’s going to end and how it’s going to go. But on television nobody knows what’s going to happen, even the writers.
ALAN CUMMING

Always Certain End Film Go Know Knowledge Play Story Theatre Thing
Audiences and, to a large extent, critics who want less from theater than it is possible for it to give. If everybody’s encouraged to want less, you’ll end up with less.
EDWARD ALBEE

Audience Criticism Encouragement End Theatre Yourself
If I don’t win, I’ll just wait until I’m nominated for being in the theater during the show. Do they have one like that?
ALAN ALDA

Being During Like Nominate Show Theatre Until Win
Film doesn’t have to worry. Movies are awesome. There’s no war going on, theaters aren’t going to lose.
AARON SORKIN

Awesome Film Going Movie Theatre War Worry
I wore goofy hats to school and did musical theater.
ZAC EFRON

Goofy Hair Musical School Theatre Wore
Performing a one-man Macbeth feels like the greatest challenge.
ALAN CUMMING

Cinema Film Home People Television Temple Theatre

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