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"One half of the pleasure experienced at a theatre arises from the spectator's sympathy with the rest of the audience, and, especially from his belief in their sympathy with him."
"The pit of a theatre is the one place where the tears of virtuous and wicked men alike are mingled."
"Whether it was working on theatre sets or stage lighting, I didn't realize most all of the skills I was exposed to were going to come in handy later on when I became a designer."
"I think of myself as a theatre comic instead of club comic because I tend to talk for a bit before I start being funny. I don't really do the one-liners and five second bits or whatever. But it's good to work stuff out sometimes."
"I did loads of student films and fringe theatre. I worked for free a lot."
"Dread of disaster makes everybody act in the very way that increases the disaster. Psychologically the situation is analogous to that of people trampled to death when there is a panic in a theatre caused by a cry of `Fire!'."
"I think now that the great thing is not so much the formulation of an answer for myself, for the theatre, or the play - but rather the most accurate possible statement of the problem."
"I love old movies. The '40s theatre pace is fantastic."
"As in a theatre, the eyes of men, after a well-graced actor leaves the stage, are idly bent on him that enters next."
"I think theatre should always be somewhat suspect."
"I've found that the only way to make theatre that gets the audience thinking is when I feel uncomfortable making it."
"The appearance and retirement of actors are the great events of the theatrical world; and their first performances fill the pit with conjecture and prognostication, as the first actions of a new monarch agitate nations with hope and fear."
"The truth, the absolute truth, is that the chief beauty for the theatre consists in fine bodily proportions."
"The theatre is supremely fitted to say: 'Behold! These things are.' Yet most dramatists employ it to say: 'This moral truth can be learned from beholding this action.'"
"I just am committed wholeheartedly to theatre with no intermission."
"You start in April and cross to the time of May One has you as it leaves, one as it comes Since the edges of these months are yours and defer To you, either of them suits your praises. The Circus continues and the theatre's lauded palm, Let this song, too, join the Circus spectacle."
"I'd love to think that people in the future would gather in theatres, at conventions, and in darkened rooms, and read it out to each other."
"My operas and my theatre works are very formal pieces."
"The great theatre for virtue is conscience."
"Every generous action loves the public view; yet no theatre for virtue is equal to a consciousness of it."
