“Rodgers and Hammerstein didn’t mean anything to me. I just wanted to have a hit, I just wanted to be like those people on the radio. It was all of a case of the present tense with no projecting into the future, particularly.”
-Art Garfunkel
(photo credit: Kevin Mazur/WireImage)
“In my career, there have been three things that were challenging: playing gay; playing a Jewish woman; and playing Chekhov. The scariest part was playing Chekhov!”
-Bernadette Peters
(Photo detail from cover image of PS Classics CD
Sondheim Sings, Volume II: 1946-1960)
“I chose and my world was shaken. So what? The choice may have been mistaken; the choosing was not. You have to move on.”
-Stephen Sondheim
“For a minute or perhaps two-and this is a long time-the theater makes man better and happier on this earth.”
-Jean Jacques Gautier
“… actresses require protection in their art from blind abuse, from savage criticism. Their work is their religion, if they are seeking the best in their art, and to abuse that faith is to rob them, to dishonor them.”
-Nance O’Neil
“In Mexico, theater is very underground, so if you’re a theater actor it’s very difficult to make a living. But it’s also a very beautiful pathway to knowledge and to an open education.”
-Gael Garcia Bernal
“To save the theatre, the theatre must be destroyed, the actors and actresses must all die of the plague. They poison the air, they make art impossible. It is not drama that they play, but pieces for the theatre. We should return to the Greeks, play in the open air; the drama dies of stalls and boxes and evening dress, and people who come to digest their dinner.”
-Eleanor Duse
“The Center of the stage is where I am”
-Martha Graham
“I believe that in a great city, or even in a small city or a village, a great theater is the outward and visible sign of an inward and probable culture.”
-Sir Laurence Olivier
“The theater is so endlessly fascinating because it’s so accidental. It’s so much like life”
-Arthur Miller
