Quotes about Theater

Lacking real compassion and charity for others, he would take pleasure in weeping and rejoicing with the fictional characters on the stage. His love was not real.

The most stringent protection of free speech would not protect a man in falsely shouting fire in a theater and causing a panic…. The question in every case is whether the words used are used in such circumstances and are of such a nature as to create a clear and present danger that they will bring about the substantive evils that Congress has a right to prevent.

With respect to the requirement of art, the probable impossible is always preferable to the improbable possible.

You write a hit play the same way you write a flop.

I think a playwright must be his own dramaturg. I believe in a theater where the director and the playwright work together to create what they need.

Upon common theaters, indeed, the applause of the audience is of more importance to the actors than their own aprobation. But upon the stage of life, while concience claps, let the world hiss! On the contrary if concience disapproves, the loudest applauses of the world are of little value.

I beg you to believe that life is not a process, it's a drama

I enjoyed the courtroom as just another stage but not so amusing as Broadway.

The Church can't be a religious theater where paid men perform for the religious amusement of the people who pay them.

And what would be great numbers in a Broadway show are now on stage of the New York City Ballet.

In tragedy anything comic is a blemish and in comedy anything tragic is ugly

An actor should be able to create the universe in the palm of his hand.