#eater

I spent 10 years in New York doing theater. ↗

— Kristen Johnston

#i #new #new york #spent #theater

Your idol is shattered in the dust to prove that God's dust is greater than your idol. ↗

— Rabindranath Tagore

#god #greater #idol #prove #shattered

You go to a theater now and you literally see parents watching the movie and they suddenly cover their kid's ears. I figured I'd make one movie where they didn't have to do this. ↗

— Garry Marshall

#ears #figured #go #i #kid

Television has some lovely aspects to it - and some ghastly aspects - but the theater itself was a wonderful invention. ↗

— Patrick Macnee

#ghastly #invention #itself #lovely #some

Never open the door to a lesser evil, for other and greater ones invariably slink in after it. ↗

— Baltasar Gracian

#door #evil #greater #invariably #lesser

Theatre has so many competitors, it's no longer enough to see and hear a play. You want to be able to touch and smell it too ↗

— Lucien Bourjeily

#actor #actress #immersive #interactive-theater #multisensory

And it's a preference, a long-held preference, what you might call a 'habit of mind'—putting words into other people's mouths. And those people are played by people whose profession is to pretend to be other people. For which purpose, they adopt gestures, voices, intonations, even sexual attitudes not their own. On stage, they affect to be ravished and amused by someone whom they will, afterwards, run a mile to avoid having dinner with. Likewise, they spit torrents of abuse against an actor who later, later, in the softness of the night, they will share their bed with. ↗

— David Hare

#attitude

Great is the victory, but the friendship of all is greater. ↗

— Emil Zatopek

#great #greater #victory

What then is the difference between film and theatre? Or should one not rather ask: what are the differences? Let us be content wi th the reply that the screen has two dimensions and the stage three, that the screen presents photographs and the stage living actors. All the subtler differences stem from these. The camera can show us all sorts of things--from close-ups of insects to panoramas of prairies--which the stage cannot even suggest, and it can move from one to another with much more dexterity than any conceivable stage. The stage, on the other hand, can be revealed in the unsurpassable beauty of three-dimensional shapes, and the stage actor establishes between himself and his audience a contact real as electricity. ↗

— Eric Bentley

#beauty

If you want to create a masterpiece, you must always avoid beautiful lies. ↗

— Jerzy Grotowski

#beauty #masterpiece #theater #art