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Clifford Graham: Thoughts on Thoughts….

Are you in the game for fame? Or is it the act of art that grows your being? Do you need an audience to be art? If you are your own worst critic, imagine if you were your own best audience, because you over came your own criticism. Teachers inspire us, but hearing criticism

begins with hearing your own. Which is where health matters, how can you hear your own criticism beyond the temptation to destroy yourself? The struggle for art lives in that duality.

Joe McKesson

I regard the theatre as the greatest of all art forms, the most immediate way in which a human being can share with another the sense of what it is to be a human being.

Oscar Wilde

What is a wife and what is a harlot? What is a church and what is a theatre? are they two and not one? Can they exist separate? Are not religion and politics the same thing? Brotherhood is religion. O demonstrations of reason dividing families in cruelty and pride!

William Blake

I think theatre should always be somewhat suspect.

Vaclav Havel

It's one of the tragic ironies of the theatre that only one man in it can count on steady work - the night watchman.

Tallulah Bankhead

You really, really, really have to love what you are going to do in theatre because it is an unmerciful life. It's six days a week. It's eight performances a week. And that's doing the exact same thing over and over and over again.

Harvey Fierstein

Also, if you want to reach people, theatre is not always the best way to do it.

Harvey Fierstein

In contrast, the control you have in a theatre is very attractive to me.

Judi Dench

But men must know, that in this theatre of man's life it is reserved only for God and angels to be lookers on.

Francis Bacon

Yeah, well I've always played comedy. My background is musical comedy theatre and that's really where my training is. As an actor, that's my training.

Christopher Walken

A good film is when the price of the dinner, the theatre admission and the babysitter were worth it.

Alfred Hitchcock

My playground was the theatre. I'd sit and watch my mother pretend for a living. As a young girl, that's pretty seductive.

Gwyneth Paltrow

I have the terrible feeling that, because I am wearing a white beard and am sitting in the back of the theatre, you expect me to tell you the truth about something. These are the cheap seats, not Mount Sinai.

Orson Welles

The good die young but not always. The wicked prevail but not consistently. I am confused by life, and I feel safe within the confines of the theatre.

Helen Hayes

I've done both theatre and film and the fact is if you start believing, if you start reading things and they're good reviews - you believe that and you're lost, and then you read bad reviews and you think that's true and you read that and you're lost.

Jenny Agutter

Pornography is a theatre of types, never of individuals.

Susan Sontag

The pit of a theatre is the one place where the tears of virtuous and wicked men alike are mingled.

Denis Diderot

The truth, the absolute truth, is that the chief beauty for the theatre consists in fine bodily proportions.

Sarah Bernhardt

For the theatre one needs long arms... an artiste with short arms can never make a fine gesture.

Sarah Bernhardt

The theatre is the involuntary reflex of the ideas of the crowd.

Sarah Bernhardt

When I come into the theatre I get a sense of security. I love an audience. I love people, and I act because I like trying to give pleasure to people.

Vivien Leigh

Background images: Alfred Rietmann, Clifford Graham and open source images.

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