Stage Play Quotes:

A stage play ought to be the point of intersection between the visible and invisible worlds, or, in other words, the display, the manifestation of the hidden.

- Arthur Adamov

topic: Play, World, Invisible, Stage Play

All the world's a stage, and all the men and women merely players: they have their exits and their entrances; and one man in his time plays many parts, his acts being seven ages.

- William Shakespeare

source: 'As You Like It' (1599) act 2, sc. 7, l. 139

topic: Birthday, Time, Player, Most Memorable, Metaphors Of Life

A stage play is basically a form of uber-schizophrenia. You split yourself into two minds - one being the protagonist and the other being the antagonist. The playwright also splits himself into two other minds: the mind of the writer and the mind of the audience.

- David Mamet

topic: Play, Two, Uber, Stage Play, Antagonist

You need three things in the theatre - the play, the actors and the audience, and each must give something.

- Kenneth Haigh

source: Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

topic: Play, Giving, Theatre, Stage Play, Theatre Actors

There will always be a theatrical experience because there will always be cinemas no matter what. It's like there will always be theaters to have stage plays in.

- Nicolas Winding Refn

source: Source: uk.businessinsider.com

topic: Play, Cinema, Matter, Stage Play

Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player, that struts and frets his hour upon the stage, and then is heard no more; it is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.

- William Shakespeare

topic: Inspirational, Life, Success, Meaningless Life, Most Memorable

It is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury; signifying nothing.

- William Shakespeare

topic: Life, Sound, Idiot, Most Memorable, Metaphors Of Life

They were all dressed in their finest as though life really were some magical stage play in which every moment ought to be illuminated with its own bright spotlight.

- Anna Godbersen

topic: Play, Spotlight, Moments, Stage Play

Without the heart it is no worship. It is a stage play. It is an acting of a part without being that person, really. It is playing the hypocrite.

- Stephen Charnock

source: "The Existence and Attributes of God".

topic: Hypocrite, Heart, Play, Stage Play

It takes a lot out of you to do a stage play, but I'd love to do that. I'd love to continue to do challenging material, whatever shape or form that comes in.

- Jeremy Renner

source: Source: collider.com

topic: Play, Challenges, Shapes, Stage Play

Acting in a stage play is like working the evening shift in an office.

- Arthur Smith

source: "The agony of acting" by Arthur Smith, www.theguardian.com. June 6, 2001.

topic: Play, Office, Acting, Stage Play

Without the heart it’s not worship, it’s a stage play.

- Stephen Charnock

topic: Heart, Play, Worship, Stage Play

I don't think I write differently when I'm writing a screenplay, as opposed to a stage play or a teleplay. Maybe if I were in a film class and there was time to think about it, we could point out differences.

- Aaron Sorkin

source: Source: collider.com

topic: Writing, Thinking, Class, Stage Play

The 10 or 12 artists I have known really well all my life are at least as competitive as professional athletes. They may express it in slightly different terms, but you look at the Jackson Pollocks et al., and they are as interested in wall space in the galleries as Joe Montana is in the percentage of completed passes. So the notion that symphonic conducting, or stage play, or pure art, is not a competitive business is real bullshit.

- Tom Peters

source: "The Peters Principles". Interview with Virginia Postrel, reason.com. October 1997.

topic: Art, Wall, Business, Stage Play, Pollock

A symphony is a stage play with the parts written for instruments instead of for actors.

- Colin Wilson

source: Colin Wilson (1964). “Brandy of the Damned: Discoveries of a Musical Eclectic”, London : J.Baker

topic: Play, Symphony, Actors, Stage Play

I wrote my first book at eight, all of four pages. At 10, I did a 40-page story. At 12, I wrote two stage plays.

- Caitlin Moran

topic: Book, Eight, Play, Stage Play

My first lead role was a stage play called A Kestrel for a Knave. I was 11.

- Justin Chadwick

source: "Justin Chadwick and the Madiba Effect". Interview with Emma Brown, www.interviewmagazine.com. December 26, 2013.

topic: Play, Roles, Knaves, Stage Play

There's never been a film with Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. at the center released in theaters. Ever! One does not exist. You've only seen tele-films and stage plays about him. Yet, we have big screens biopics about all kinds of people. So, I think it's only right that there be a full-length feature about Dr. King. I don't think there could be enough of them, but there should be at least one. So, here it is!

- Ava DuVernay

source: Interview with Kam Williams, www.kamwilliams.com. December 22, 2014.

topic: Kings, Thinking, Play, Stage Play, Dr Martin Luther King

It worries me a little bit the reach and power of TV. More people saw me in The Practice than will ever see me in all the stage plays I ever do. Which is sort of humbling. Or troubling. Or both.

- Michael Emerson

topic: Practice, Play, Worry, Stage Play

A stage play requires very different craft from a book, fiction or otherwise, and ditto from a screenplay.

- Dirk Benedict

topic: Book, Play, Different, Stage Play

Pain itself can be pleasurable accidentally in so far as it is accompanied by wonder, as in stage-plays; or in so far as it recalls a beloved object to one's memory, and makes one feel one's love for the thing, whose absence gives us pain. Consequently, since love is pleasant, both pain and whatever else results from love, in so far as they remind us of our love, are pleasant.

- Thomas Aquinas

topic: Pain, Memories, Love Is, Stage Play

A book is actually a place, a place where we, as adults, still have the chance to engage in active imagining, translating word to image, connecting these images to memories, dreams, and larger ideas. Television, film, even the stage play, have already been imagined for us, but the book, in whatever form we choose to interact with it, forces us to complete it.

- Joe Meno

topic: Dream, Memories, Book, Stage Play

I came to Mozambique in 1986, when I first became involved with Teatro Avenida - a theatre company that stages plays concerned with political and social issues.

- Henning Mankell

topic: Play, Issues, Political, Stage Play, Mozambique

Most of my nightmares involve me forgetting my lines in a stage play.

- Robert Englund

source: "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Play, Lines, Nightmare, Stage Play

When AI approximates Machine Intelligence, then many online and computer-run RPGs will move towards actual RPG activity. Nonetheless, that will not replace the experience of 'being there,' any more than seeing a theatrical motion picture can replace the stage play.

- Gary Gygax

topic: Running, Moving, Rpgs, Stage Play

The stage play is a trial, not a deed of violence. The soul is opened, like the combination of a safe, by means of a word. You don't require an acetylene torch.

- Jean Giraudoux

topic: Mean, Play, Soul, Stage Play

Of all the preaching in the world, I hate that preaching which tends to make the hearers laugh, or to move their minds with tickling levity and affect them as stage plays used to, instead of affecting them with a holy reverence for the name of God.

- Richard Baxter

source: Richard Baxter (1862). “The Reformed Pastor”, p.181

topic: Hate, Moving, Play, Stage Play, Tickling

Film acting is really the trick of doing moments. You rarely do a take that lasts more than 20 seconds. You really earn your spurs acting onstage. I needed to do that for myself. I would hate to say at the end of everything that I never did a stage play.

- Sam Shepard

topic: Hate, Play, Acting, Stage Play, Film Acting

When I was doing theater in the 1950's, 60's and 70's we weren't allowed to film any of the shows that I did, it was against union rules. It was a stupid law, because so much is lost. We now have no record of these famous stage plays, so it turned out to be very narrow-minded thinking.

- Debbie Reynolds

source: Source: www.hollywoodchicago.com

topic: Stupid, Thinking, Law, Stage Play