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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I've learned, having been on a lot of sets, the good news is that by definition you are surrounded by experts. They get fired if they're not - unlike in the theatre!

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Plays by Alan Ayckbourn have been attracting larger audiences in the regional theatres than those of Shakespeare.

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I swear fearfully at the conventions of the stage.

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

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Sometimes we go to a play and after the curtain has been up five minutes we have a sense of being able to settle back in the arms of the playwright. Instinctively we know that the playwright knows his business.

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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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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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Unless comedy touches me as well as amuses me, it leaves me with a sense of having wasted my evening. I go to the theatre to be moved to laughter, not to be tickled or bustled into it.

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An actor is part illusionist, part artist, part ham.

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

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Acting touches nerves you have absolutely no control over.

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All that day she had had the feeling that she was playing in the theatre with actors better than herself and that her poor playing spoiled the whole thing.

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Coughing in the theater is not a respiratory ailment. It is a criticism.

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

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Cedar, and pine, and fir, and branching palm, A sylvan scene, and as the ranks ascend Shade above shade, a woody theatre Of stateliest view.

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