Truer Words

Here are several quotes from theatre folk better, at least bigger, than I. We have to collect them for my APO Induction TONIGHT! *glee* and I wanted to share them.

Acting is merely the art of keeping a large group from coughing
-Alan Rickman

Drama is life with the dull bits cut out
-Alfred Hitchcok

Theatre is like a virus, once you get it you can't get rid of it.
-Robin Boisseau

The novel is more of a whipser, wheras the stage is a shout
-Rober Holman

If you cried a little less, the audience would cry more
-Edith Evans

The sole aim of the arts of scene designing, costuming, lighting, is to enhace the natural powers of the actors
-Robert Edmond Jones

All the world's a stage, some of us just have better seats.
-Anon

Coughing in the theatre is not a resporatory ailment. It is criticism.
-Harry Hopkins

The most important thing in acting is honest. If you can fake that, you've got it made.
-George Burns

Part to God and say the lines.
-Bette Davis

Actors are the only honest hippocrits.
-Will Hazlett

If we could read minds, we wouldn't need headsets.
-Unknown Techie

We've put a man on the moon. If you miss a cue, no one will die.
-Stella Adler

The play was a great success, but the audience was a disaster.

-Oscar Wilde