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f6cc0f4 Exit, pursued by a bear. surrealism theater legend William Shakespeare
76699d8 That's how we stay young these days: murder and suicide. nihilism theater Eugène Ionesco
b30f486 The Play's the Thing, wherein I'll catch the conscience of the King. shakespeare scene-2 play hamlet theater William Shakespeare
2c428bd All the world's a stage, and all the men and women merely players. mankind world humanity actors theater stage William Shakespeare
a6e47b5 people see so many movies that when they finally see one not so bad as the others, they think it's great. an Academy Award means that you don't stink quite as much as your cousin. theatre academy-awards film movies theater Charles Bukowski
ffbf722 I take thee at thy word: Call me but love, and I'll be new baptized; Henceforth I never will be Romeo. theatre shakespeare names poetry inspiration identity life love inspirational new-life birth resurrection theater name William Shakespeare
6c9fdd3 The theater is the only institution in the world which has been dying for four thousand years and has never succumbed. It requires tough and devoted people to keep it alive. theater John Steinbeck
63613c9 All life is theatre,' he said. 'We are all actors, you and I, in a play which nobody wrote and which nobody will see. We have no audience but ourselves.... theatre philosophical theater Susan Cooper
15f3740 It's about that applause I want to speak to you. I want you to remember that when you've done a little dance or a song or sketch, the applause which you get is not only because you yourself have done your best, but because each of those men is seeing in you someone he loves at home, and because of you is able to forget for a little while the unhappiness of not being in his home, and in some cases the great tragedy of not knowing what has happened to the children in his family. war applause dancing singing theater stage Noel Streatfeild
7d2d259 You can't believe people when they look you in the eyes. You gotta' look behind them. See what they're standing in front of. What they're hiding. Everyone's hiding, Wes. Everybody. Nobody look like what they are. theater Sam Shepard
53c5665 The theatre is a tragic place, full of endings and partings and heartbreak. You dedicate yourself passionately to something, to a project, to people, to a family, you think of nothing else for weeks and months, then suddenly it's over, it's perpetual destruction, perpetual divorce, perpetual adieu. It's like , it's a koan. It's like falling in love and being smashed over and over again.' 'You do, then, fall in love.' 'Only with fictions, I love players, but actors are so ephemeral. And then there's waiting for the perfect part, and being offered it the day after you've committed yourself to something utterly rotten. The remorse, and the envy and the jealousy. An old actor told me if I wanted to stay in the trade I had better kill off envy and jealousy at the start. theatre jealousy love remorse regret hamlet theater Iris Murdoch
240a632 Great art projects a sense of inexhaustibility. In literature, particularly in poetry, this may be accomplished through ambiguity: Beneath each and every meaning that I can descry lie others, so that rereading holds out the prospect of new subtleties, inversions, secret codes and ineffabilities noh vollmann japanese theater William T. Vollmann
437fdcf Personally I always preferred Lipton's. theater Samuel Beckett
cf7bb98 BERNARDA.-- Las mujeres en la iglesia no deben mirar mas hombre que al oficiante, y a ese porque tiene faldas. Volver la cabeza es buscar el calor de la pana. MUJER 1.-- (En voz baja) !Vieja lagarta recocida! LA PONCIA.-- (Entre dientes) !Sarmentosa por calentura de varon! BERNARDA.-- (Dando un golpe de baston en el suelo) !Alabado sea Dios! TODAS.-- (Santiguandose) Sea por siempre bendito y alabado. theatre mourning religion la-casa-de-bernarda-alba spanish-literature theatre-plays teatro spain españa honour honor theater Federico García Lorca
3eb4947 "Magnus had caught it gingerly, half expecting it to blow in his face. The Teacher chuckled. "Don't worry, it can't do anything without fire." The thing looked and felt pretty innocuous, actually. It was shorter and fatter than a candlestick, and not colored red like it was in the comic books or the new Technicolor cartoons that still ran at the cinema every Saturday afternoon. Magnus had no money for such things anymore, but sometimes he and Kiki- another boy who worked for the Resistance- sneaked into the theater through an unlocked window." -- dynamite magnus-johansen resistance-movement cinema theater Susan Wiggs