George Bernard Shaw Quotes, Play Quotes, Theatre Quotes

When you want to put something into your part that is not in the play, you must ask the author-or some other author-to lead up to the interpolation for you. Never forget that the effect of a line may depend not on its delivery, but on something said earlier in the play, either by somebody else or by yourself, and that if you change it, it may be necessary to change the whole first act as well.

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All movies in China are censored. Out of 600 movies produced in China, only 60 are allowed to show in theatres.

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Scottish Theatre's greatest success story of recent times.

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For me, filmmaking combines everything. That's the reason I've made cinema my life's work. In films, painting and literature, theatre and music come together. But a film is still a film.

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I swear fearfully at the conventions of the stage.

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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.

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Keep your head when all about you are losing theirs and blaming it on you.

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Every generous action loves the public view; yet no theatre for virtue is equal to a consciousness of it.

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The great theatre for virtue is conscience.

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Playwriting gets into your blood and you can't stop it. At least not until the producers or the public tell you to.

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I like the theatre because you paint with broad strokes. To me the theatre is stretching its definition really far.

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Playwriting gets into your blood and you can't stop it. At least not until the producers or the public tell you to.

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Playwriting gets into your blood and you can't stop it. At least not until the producers or the public tell you to.

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Acting touches nerves you have absolutely no control over.

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I like a good story well told. That is the reason I am sometimes forced to tell them myself.

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Playwriting gets into your blood and you can't stop it. At least not until the producers or the public tell you to.

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I was so scared of going back to the theatre after Hamlet. I didn't know if I'd do a play again because I was afraid of the power of it.

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Is she perverted like me? Would she go down on you in a theatre?

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The only way to see the value of a play is to see it acted.

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I regard the theatre as the greatest of all art forms, the most immediate way in which a human being can share with another the sense of what it is to be a human being.

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