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Quotations
 | 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. — William Shakespeare, 1564-1616, English poet & playwright ‐ As You Like It 9 likes |
 | The world is a stage, but the play is badly cast. — Oscar Wilde, 1854-1900, Irish writer 8 likes |
 | The theater is one of those beehives where we transform the honey of the visible into the invisible. — Louis Jouvet, 1887-1951, French actor 5 likes |
 | I don't believe in astrology. The only stars I can blame for my failures are those that walk about the stage. — Noel Coward, 1899-1973, British playwright 4 likes |
 | All the plays that have ever been written, from ancient Greece to the present day, have never really been anything but thrillers... Every play is an investigation brought to a successful conclusion. — Eugene Ionesco, 1912-1994, French-Romanian playwright 4 likes |
 | But men must know that in this theater of man's life it is reserved only for God and angels to be lookers on. — Francis Bacon, 1561-1626, English philosopher 3 likes |
 | A good actor must never be in love with anyone but himself. — Jean Anouilh, 1910-1987, French playwright 3 likes |
 | In Paris, everybody wants to be an actor; nobody is content to be a spectator. — Jean Cocteau, 1889-1963, French artist 3 likes |
 | Playwriting gets into your blood and you can't stop it. At least not until the producers or the public tell you to. — T. S. Eliot, 1888-1965, British poet, Nobel 1948 3 likes |
 | In comedy there are only two main parts. He who slaps and he who gets slapped. It is never the one who slaps who gets the laughs. — Georges Feydeau, 1862-1921, French playwright 3 likes |
 | Nature has four great scenes – the seasons – and always the same actors: the sun, the moon and the stars. But it constantly changes the audience. — Antoine Rivarol, 1753-1801, French author of maxims 3 likes |
 | If there's a gun on the wall in act one, scene one, you must fire the gun by act three, scene two. If you fire a gun in act three, scene two, you must see the gun on the wall in act one, scene one. — Anton Chekhov, 1860-1904, Russian writer 3 likes |
 | The quality of a play is the quality of its ideas. — George Bernard Shaw, 1856-1950, Irish writer, Nobel 1925 2 likes |
 | For what is life but a play in which everyone acts a part until the curtain comes down? |
 | Sin is what is new, strong, surprising, strange. The theater must take an interest in sin, if the young are to be willing to go there. |
| If you don't have fun, you don't have a show. |
| Don’t expect the theater to satisfy the habits of its audience, but to change them. |
| Comedies of manners swiftly become obsolete when there are no longer any manners. |
| We do theater because we have the impression of never having been ourselves and that we will finally be able to be. |
| Nothing more futile, more false, more vain, more necessary than the theater. |
| Condemned to explain the mystery of their life, men invented the theater. |
| A play is a conversation. |
| The theater is the domain of appearances. |
Funny Quotes
 | If all the world is a stage, where is the audience sitting? — George Carlin, 1936-2008, American comedian 11 likes |
Ancient Greek
 | The world is a stage, life is a passage. You came, you saw, you departed. Ο κόσμος σκηνή, ο βίος πάροδος. Ήλθες, είδες, απήλθες. — Democritus, 470-370 BC, Ancient Greek philosopher 37 likes |
