Theatre sayings

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◆ Religion and atheism will both survive it [the musical Jesus Christ Superstar by Time Rice and Andrew Lloyd Webber].

- Stanley Kauffmann99

◆ The language of the body is the key that can unlock the soul.

- Konstantin Stanislavsky99

◆ Dying is not romantic, and death is not a game which will soon be over... Death is not anything... death is not... It's the absence of presence, nothing more... the endless time of never coming back... a gap you can't see, and when the wind blows through it, it makes not sound...

- Tom Stoppar99

◆ Pirates could happen to anyone.

- Tom Stoppard99

◆ If you want a bourgeois existence, you shouldn't be an actor. You're in the wrong profession.

- Uta Hagen99

◆ The foyer at Covent Garden looks like Harrods food hall has offered up its dead

- Jonathan Miller99

◆ Religion and atheism will both survive it [the musical Jesus Christ Superstar by Time Rice and Andrew Lloyd Webber].

- Stanley Kauffmann99

◆ My background is somewhat unusual, as I trained to be a ballet dancer. I worked in the theatre for eight or nine years as a contemporary dancer.

- Will Kemp99

◆ As a child I was taken to the pantomime or the theatre and I would always, always fall in love with somebody on the stage. And want to have sex with them.

- Ewan McGregor99

◆ My playground was the theatre. I'd sit and watch my mother pretend for a living. As a young girl, that's pretty seductive.

- Gwyneth Paltrow99

◆ I was very interested in theatre, mostly in stage design. I did a little bit of acting.

- Jim Henson99

◆ We need more theatres, more art and more culture in this country.

- Richard Briers99

◆ Theatre sports is the best improv training period.

- Wayne Brady99