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| Acting, Directing | The most important thing you can teach actors is to understand plays. | Adler | Stella | |
| Acting & Directing | A play is a series of actions. A play is not about action, nor does it describe action. Is a fire about flames? Does it describe flames? No, a fire is flames. A play is action. Why do you think actors are called actors? And action in a play occurs when something happens that makes or permits something else to happen. | Ball | David | |
| Acting, Directing | I think actors have a greater responsibility when doing comedy. It's as easy as anything to get cheap laughs, but that's not the idea at all. "The slight trip syndrome," we call it. With tragedy one can get away with things a bit more because audiences don't always know how to react. | Bowles | Peter | |
| Acting, Directing | The virtue of dress rehearsals is that they are a free show for a select group of artists and friends of the author, and where for one unique evening the audience is almost expurgated of idiots. | Jarry | Alfred | |
| Acting, Directing | All action in theatre must have inner justification, be logical, coherent, and real. | Stanislavski | Constantin | |
| Acting, Directing | Audiences know what to expect. . . and that is all they are prepared to believe in."= | Stoppard | Tom | |
| Acting, Directing | The two happiest days in a theatre person's life: The day you start on a new show and the day the thing closes. | Unknown | ||
| Acting, Directing, General | It is not theatre that is indispensable, but something quite different. To cross the frontiers between you and me. | Grotowski | Jerzy | |
| Acting, Directing, General | Opening Night: The night before the play is ready to open. | Nathan | George Jean | |
| Acting, Directing, General | You can't make theater happen without actors. The actor is the central ingredient in making theater happen. Audiences may come to theaters to see the work of stage managers, directors and producers, but the only people who can communicate theater magic to audiences, through ideas and emotions, are the actors. They are the only ones who can communicate this by themselves, and if necessary, they can get along without you. But you can't make theater without the actor. | Stern | Lawrence | |
| Acting, Directing, General | I think that first nights should come near the end of a play's run--as indeed, they often do. | Ustinov | Peter | |
| Acting, Directing, General | The play was a great success, but the audience was a disaster. | Wilde | Oscar |