Object Theatre Quotes & Sayings

The excitement of theatre is palpable but the frustrations, and the complete absence of a definitive evening - the play as text means practically nothing in a way - , there's no particular performance that is definitive in the way a novel is a solid object you hold in your hands and here it is. You can't say that about a play. If the novel gives us a sense of throbbing consciousness, theater is pure soul, beautiful and elusive. — Don DeLillo

He, the One, the bringer of all to enlightenment, had an earthy name.
His name was Jimmy. — Teresa Lo

Not a single object seems to possess a practical use. The antechamber itself seems useless, a sort of vestibule to a barn, It is exactly the same sort of sensation I get when I enter the Comedie-Francaise or the Palaise- Royal Theatre; ; it is a world of bric-a-brac, of trap doors, of arms and busts and waxed floors, of candelabras and men in armor, of statues without eyes and love letters lying in glass cases. Something is going on, but it makes no sense; it's like finishing the half-empty bottle of Calvados because there's no room in the valise. — Henry Miller

The object is freedom. — Anne Bogart

A core part of Teach For America's mission has always been affecting positive change in the traditional public school system. — Wendy Kopp

I know what you're thinking 'Did he fire six shots or only five? — Clint Eastwood

Every life has a file, if you will. — Joseph Brodsky

Music. It's all creativity right here, right now. — Billy Higgins

I was on stage with Cyndi Lauper, and my trousers split. It seemed like she was going to sing for ever. — Bobby Womack

Custom is sanctified absurdity. — Marty Rubin

I could give you my word as a Spaniard," Inigo said.
"No good," the man in black replied. "I've known too many Spaniards. — William Goldman

If we try to deny the darkness in our souls then we'll become completely dark. — Ray Bradbury

What I have always found most beautiful in the theatre, in my childhood, and still today, is lustre
a beautiful object, luminous, crystalline, complex, circular, symmetrical. However, I do not absolutely deny the value of dramatic literature. Only, I should like the actors to be mounted on high pattens, to wear masks more expressive than the human face, and to speak through megaphones. — Charles Baudelaire