Theatre Productions Quotes & Sayings

When someone sees something old they think it's worth more than something new. I'll give them that. The history, imagining who might have stood or sat or eaten at a piece hundreds of years before gives it a value you can't hang a price tag on, but I've never thought it was ten times the value of a new piece. I think some things are better when new, then you can grow old together. — James L. Rubart

In a way, I have to have a dictatorship. I can't be told that I'm wrong. That conflicts with what I was saying earlier about listening. It isn't to do with receiving criticism and responding to other views, it's who has that last decision. — Trevor Nunn

You're lucky I'm drawn to things that are sick and weird. Makes it so I can actually still like you. — Molly Ringle

All that we want to do away with is the miserable character of this appropriation, under which the labourer lives merely to increase capital , and allowed to live only so far as the interest to the ruling class requires it. — Karl Marx

Though I acted in hundreds of productions, appeared at the Guthrie Theatre and on Broadway in Amadeus, I discovered in my thirties that I didn't really like stage acting. The presence of the audience, the eight shows a week and the possibility of a long run were all unnatural to me. — Fred Melamed

What it boils down to is that parenting a child with autism is a difficult job; writing about it is far easier. — Elizabeth Moon

I have walked many times around the world and each time it's different from the last one. It feels a little bit like I am a theatrical director, creating a theatre in space. It's really a theater in the sky. But of course the World Trade Center is certainly the most well-known of my productions. — Philippe Petit

You know more of a road by having traveled it than by all the conjectures and descriptions in the world. — William Hazlitt

Being male is a matter of birth. Being a man is a matter of age. But being a gentleman is a matter of choice. — Srinivas Shenoy

Tommy told Sal about the strange white-cloth figure with black stitches that he had found on the front porch.
"Sounds like Pillsbury Doughboy gone punk," Sal said. — Dean Koontz

I'm looking forward to locking swords with Douglas Henshall and working against the stunning backdrop of Shetland. I came to Scotland a lot in the 70s and 80s in various theatre productions and of course to film Hallam Foe but this is the furthest I've ever been. — Ciaran Hinds

Directing Skyfall was one of the best experiences of my professional life, but I have theatre and other commitments, including productions of Charlie And The Chocolate Factory and King Lear, that need my complete focus over the next year and beyond. — Sam Mendes

I have always added dance to my productions. When I was directing theatre, I added dance sequences where they didn't exist in the play. I think dance is the ultimate form of expression. — Valerie Weiss

I have this sensation of being in flight all the time, but being on stage is like creating a sanctuary in which you can completely lose yourself. The bits of your personality that you keep under wraps in ordinary life, you can let them run free. — Florence Welch

Young people's reading choices are influenced by their peers. — Stephen D. Krashen

Shall we always study to obtain more of these things, and not sometimes to be content with less? — Henry David Thoreau

A revelation leaps over the borders of the everyday. A life without revelation is no life at all. — Haruki Murakami

I hate thinking about clothes. I hate shopping. — Natalie Maines

I was adopted legally around age three, but it's not like this thing I think about when I wake up every day. I was adopted by my foster parents, so I was comfortable with them. I wasn't in this alien place. — Angel Olsen