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  • " The number of people who will not go to a show they do not want to see is unlimited."

    - Oscar Hammerstein


  • " Lighting paperwork is a living thing, continually evolving throughout the production process until opening night."

    - Anne E. McMills

    Source: The Assistant Light Designer's Toolkit


  • " Brush up your Shakespeare Start quoting him now Brush up your Shakespeare And the women you will wow"

    - Cole Porter

    Source: Kiss Me, Kate (musical)


  • " The remarkable thing about Shakespeare is that he is really very good - in spite of all the people who say he is very good."

    - Robert Graves

    Source: Robert Graves (1895 - 1985)


  • " When you're a young man, Macbeth is a character part. When you're older, it's a straight part."

    - Olivier Laurence

    Source: Laurence Olivier


  • " I think, by and large, the level of acting is mediocre. When I go to the theatre, I get so angry. I don't go."

    - Uta Hagen

    Source: http://www.brainyquote.com


  • " A great actor is independent of the poet, because the supreme essence of feeling does not reside in prose or in verse, but in the accent with which it is delivered."

    - Lee Strasberg


  • " Appreciation can make a day--even change a life, Your willingness to put it into words is all that is necessary."

    - Margaret Cousins

    Source: http://www.museummarketingtips.com/quotes/giving.html


  • " The theatre was created to tell people the truth about life and the social situation."

    - Stella Adler

    Source: http://www.brainyquote.com


  • " I started off as a theatre designer, and by some extraordinary circumstance I saw something in Stratford-upon-Avon, and realized that that's the kind of design I want, but also that that's the kind of designer I'll never be."

    - Judi Dench

    Source: http://www.brainyquote.com


  • " There's a certain secret every actor must have in his work. If you reveal it, you're letting the audience in on the wrinkles and convolutions of your brain. All I want them to do is to see the effect."

    - Frank Langella

    Source: http://www.curtainup.com/quotepro.html


  • " Once in awhile, there's stuff that makes me say, That's what theatre's about. It has to be a human event on the stage, and that doesn't happen very often."

    - Uta Hagen

    Source: http://www.brainyquote.com


  • " I think I'm a better actress for having friends and interests outside the theatre. I wouldn't want to live my life surrounded by other actors all the time."

    - Penelope Keith

    Source: http://www.brainyquote.com


  • " When you're doing a play and you're afraid of a scene, that's the scene you should embrace, because that's the scene that will tell you something about the play."

    - Raul Esparza

    Source: NY Times, 11/26/06


  • " Never not dare to hang yourself. That's the only way you grow in your profession. You must continually attempt things that you think are beyond you, or you get into a complete rut."

    - Charles Laughton

    Source: Wikipedia (under Bette Davis)


  • " If there is a gun hanging on the wall in the first act, it must fire in the last."

    - Anton Chekhov

    Source: http://www.ag.wastholm.net/category/art


  • " A good play tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad play tells us the truth about its author."

    - G.K. Chesterton

    Source: http://www.ag.wastholm.net/category/art


  • " The theatre is a spiritual and social X-ray of its time."

    - Stella Adler

    Source: http://www.brainyquote.com


  • " The word theatre comes from the Greeks. It means the seeing place. It is the place people come to see the truth about life and the social situation."

    - Stella Adler

    Source: http://www.brainyquote.com


  • " You cannot expect people to give to you on an annual basis if they have never heard of your organization or are unaware of what you do in the community and why it is so important. As part of this annual giving plan, your board of directors (with staff help) needs to have a time of brainstorming so you can identify all your “target markets” i.e. those people with whom you need to establish a relationship."

    - NonprofitExpert.com

    Source: http://www.nonprofitexpert.com/annualgiving.htm