Quotes about etiquette and acting. Theater Quotes

If you are afraid, you are afraid that an ignorant viewer will not fully appreciate your subtle, sharp thoughts, leave care! Don't worry! Fear is ridiculous. Experienced people sit here, everyone studied books, everyone will understand the truth. All are tried and tested judges, sophisticated in wrestling, so do not be afraid, argue boldly, compete. The audience will repay you according to your deserts. Aristophanes

Actors are a mirror and a brief chronicle of their time. W. Shakespeare

Facial expressions and words must match each other; especially pay attention not to overstep the boundaries of the natural. Everything that is exquisite is contrary to the intention of the theater, the purpose of which was, is and will be - to reflect nature in itself: good, evil, time, and people should see themselves in it, as in a mirror. If you present them too strongly or too weakly, of course, you will sometimes make the layman laugh, but the connoisseur will be annoyed; and for you, the judgment of the connoisseur should outweigh the opinion of everyone else. W. Shakespeare

The human mind has never invented anything more noble and useful than theatrical spectacles, both for the improvement, dance and for the purification of morals ... Voltaire

Every nation must destroy prejudices, persecute vices, describe the funny and need spectacles, but spectacles that are peculiar to it. What a weapon for the government, if it knows how to use it in those cases when it is necessary to prepare a change in the law or the destruction of custom! D. Diderot

I do not know a profession that would require more refined forms and purer morals than the theater. D. Diderot

Actors make an impression on the audience not when they rage, but when they play rage well. D. Diderot.

If an actor is seized by a thirst for applause, he overdoes it. D. Diderot

One should not deliberately make the heroes of the play smart, but one should be able to put them in such conditions under which they must show intelligence. D. Diderot

We must never forget that theater stage serve as a public school. C. Gozzi

The most real and most expedient means of arming the human mind with irresistible force and suddenly throwing at the people a mass of enlightening ideas is, undoubtedly, in the theater ... There, the majestic thought of one person will ignite, like electric current, all souls. There, finally, legislation will meet the least obstacles and achieve the greatest results, easily and without violence. L. Mercier

When you consider all the qualities necessary for the formation of a true tragic actor, all the gifts with which nature should endow him, then you will no longer be surprised that they are so rare. F. Talma

The theater punishes thousands of vices, left unpunished by the court, and recommends thousands of virtues, about which the law is silent ... The theater pulls deceit and lies from their crooked labyrinths and shows their terrible appearance to the daylight. The theater unfolds before us a varied panorama of human suffering. The theater artificially introduces us into the sphere of other people's disasters and rewards us with sweet tears and a luxurious increase in courage and experience for instant suffering ... All that our soul feels in the form of vague, unclear sensations, the theater presents us in loud words and vivid images whose strength amazes us ... Only in the theater do the greats of this world hear something rare or even directly impossible for them - the truth, and they see something that they never see around themselves or meet very rarely - a person ... F. Schiller

But the view of the boundless crowd is pleasant, When it floods the whole square around the theater and runs in an unstoppable wave, And at the narrow doors it breaks and hurries. It's not four o'clock, the evening is far away, And the crowd is teeming, empty space No, Just exactly hungry in front of the baker's shop, And everyone is ready to break their necks for a ticket. Such miracles are only in the power of a poet! W. Goethe

Stage and auditorium, actors and spectators create a whole only in combination. W. Goethe

I wasn't chasing great sets and brilliant costumes, but good plays. All births from tragedy to farce were good for me; but, in order to be staged, the play had to contain certain virtues. It could be great, strong, cheerful, graceful, but it certainly had to be a healthy work and contain some grain. Everything sickly, sickly, tearful and sentimental, as well as everything terrible, terrible and contrary to good morals, was ruled out once and for all: I was afraid to spoil both the actors and the audience. I raised the level of the actors with good plays. W. Goethe

The theater is a special world, as distant from us as the stage is from the stalls. Between the theater and reality there is an orchestra, music, and a fiery strip of a ramp stretches. Reality, having bypassed the realm of sounds and stepped over the significant fires of the footlight, appears to us on the stage, transformed by poetry. G. Heine

The actor, not only must penetrate deeply into the spirit of the poet and the role, and internally and externally bring his own individuality into full conformity with this spirit, but he must also creatively add in many points, fill in the gaps, find transitions, and generally interpret the ports with his acting. , because he is in living cash, in a visual form, extracts and makes clear the secret intentions and deeper features of his skill. Hegel

Always keep nature in mind; get in, so to speak, into the skin actor study well his special ideas, if any, and do not even lose sight of his society past life. When all this is studied, then, no matter what investments are taken from life, you will certainly express correctly: you can sometimes play weakly, sometimes somewhat satisfactorily (this very often depends on your mental disposition), but you will play correctly. M.S. Shchepkin

It's not enough for me that you be an actor, I need you to be an educated person responsible for their actions and deeds; I don't like darkness, I don't like it, my brother! M.S. Shchepkin

Play it so that I don't see what's learned. M.S. Shchepkin

It often happens to hear about an act that it has a different theatrical mind. In my opinion, this expression does not refer to an artist who speaks well and intelligently about his art, but to his correct or intelligent playing ... work is called the theatrical mind. P.S. Mochalov

Why do we go to the theatre, why do we love the theater so much? Then, that it refreshes our soul... powerful and varied experiences... and opens to us a new, transfigured and wondrous world of passions and life! In the human soul there is that special property that it seems to fall under the burden of the sweet sensations of grace, if it does not share them with another soul. And where is this section so solemn, so touching, if not in the theater, where thousands of eyes are fixed on one object, thousands of hearts beat with one feeling, thousands of breasts suffocate from one rapture, where thousands of I merge into one common whole I in a harmonious consciousness boundless bliss? V.G. Belinsky

I regard the performing arts as creativity, and the actor as an original creator, not the author's slave... The actor... supplements the author's idea with his acting, and it is in this addition that his creativity consists. V.G. Belinsky

Shchepkin is an artist, and therefore for him to study a role does not mean preparing for it once and then repeating himself in it: for him, each new performance is a new study ... He is not an assistant to the author, but his rival in creating the role. V.G. Belinsky

The theater is the highest authority for solving life's issues. Someone said that the stage is the representative chamber of poetry. All that gravitates, occupies known era, is brought onto the stage of its own accord and served by the terrible logic of events and actions unfolding and curtailing before the eyes of the spectators. This service leads to conclusions that are not abstract, but trembling with life, irresistible, many-sided. This is not a lecture, not a sermon that raises listeners into the realm of abstract generalities, into a dispassionate algebra that has little to do with everyone, precisely because it applies to everyone. On the stage, life is embraced in all its fullness, grasped in actual realization by persons, in fact ... with its universal human principles and particular personal accidents, with its daily vulgarity and with its formidable, all-devouring passion, hidden under the dusty spit of trifles, like fire under the ashes of Vesuvius. Life is seized and meanwhile not stopped; on the contrary, the impetuous movement continues, carries the spectator along with it, and with broken breath, fearful and hoping, he rushes along with the unfolding event to its extreme consequences - and suddenly he is left alone. Faces disappeared, perished; he, experiencing their life, managed to fall in love with them, enter into their interests. The blow that burst over them ricocheted into him. Such a passionate intimacy between the viewer and the stage makes a strong, organic connection between them... A.I. Herzen

theater stage below scientific department. The theater stage is the chair on which philosophy sits and, embodying the word in living, real ideas and examples, saves society from the trouble of perceiving them only by imagination. The theatrical stage is that formidable moral court where virtue and crime receive an impartial and well-deserved reward. human mind provided only theater stage that great magic power, which in an instant causes joy, sadness, surprise, admiration, pain and compassion in the hearts of all viewers. In a word, the stage dominates all the spiritual abilities of a person. The theater is a new kind of school in which people of all ages are trained ... The theater not only ennobles the ideas of society, but also shows the greatness of virtue, the baseness of vice, encouraging the first and warning against the second. He considers the subtlest aspects family life and exposes falsehood, puts it before the court of society. M. L. Nalbandyan

One cannot sufficiently explain to the public how much effort, how much hidden work, lies in the art of the actor, seemingly so accessible and easy. A. Dode

There is, as it were, a whole dynasty of powerful and peculiar minds, replacing each other and possessing a special gift - the means of theater to enliven, set in motion and convey to the people the great works of poets. V. Hugo

Only artist-artists develop in the audience a true understanding of the virtues of artistic performance ... in the absence of good actors, the taste in the public gradually declines ... A.N. Ostrovsky

Schools only prepare actors for the stage, and an actor makes an artist: talent, refined taste, energy, practice and good stage traditions. A.N. Ostrovsky

Beautiful women they don't know how to grow old, artists don't know how to retire from the stage in time: both of them are wrong. A.G. Rubinstein

Suffering must be expressed as it is expressed in life, i.e. not with feet and hands, but with tone, with a look, not with gestures, but with grace. Thin mental movements inherent intelligent people, And outwardly must be expressed subtly. You will say: the conditions of the stage: no conditions allow a lie. A.P. Chekhov

I live mine artistic life only in the light of the ramp; the sympathy and excitement of the spectators act on me and give me, in turn, the opportunity to make the audience sympathize with me and feel with me ... I live double life I laugh and cry, and at the same time I analyze my tears and my laughter in such a way that they can most powerfully influence the hearts of those whom I wish to touch. And what I experience is experienced by all the greatest actors I know. T. Salvinii

Not in art best rule How not to get carried away by the first impulse. If you give yourself time to think, the incarnation always comes out more correctly. T. Salvinii

An actor cannot be educated and trained if you do not educate a person in him. M.N. Yermolova

One should never be ashamed to lend a hand for spiritual help... an artist who takes something - at the same moment returns it with a vengeance. V.F. Komissarzhevskaya

Teach your soul not only to perceive, but to absorb the beautiful... Then you will be a real artist-artist and nothing evil and dirty will dare to enter there. V.F. Komissarzhevskaya

No work can be fruitful unless it is based on some ideal principle. At the basis of my work on myself, I put the struggle ... with an empty brilliance that replaces the inner brightness, with a far-fetched complexity that kills beautiful simplicity, with stilted efficiency, disfiguring greatness ... F.I. Chaliapin

I don't believe in one saving power of talent, without hard work. Without her, the greatest talent will fizzle out, as a spring in the desert will die out, not making its way through the sands ... Following good models, even after successes sufficient to turn the head of the most stable young man, continued to learn from whomever he could, and worked. F.I. Chaliapin

The very notion of a limit in art seems absurd to me. In moments of the greatest triumph in even such a role as "Boris Godunov", I feel myself only on the threshold of some mysterious and unattainable chambers. How long, how long long haul! F.I. Chaliapin

I never go on stage alone. There are two Chaliapins on the stage. One plays, the other controls. F.I. Chaliapin

Never forget that the theater does not live by the brilliance of lights, the luxury of scenery and costumes, effective mise-en-scenes, but by the ideas of the playwright. The flaw in the idea of ​​the play cannot be closed by anything. No theatrical tinsel will help. K.S. Stanislavsky

Beautiful is not something that blinds and intoxicates the viewer in a theatrical way. Beautiful is what exalts life human spirit on stage and from the stage, i.e. feelings and thoughts of artists and spectators. K.S. Stanislavsky

Playing in front of a full and sympathetic audience is like singing in a room with good acoustics. The viewer creates, so to speak, spiritual acoustics. He receives from us and, like a resonator, returns to us his living human feelings. K.S. Stanislavsky

[the artist] is obliged to be the bearer and conductor of the beautiful in life as well. Otherwise, he will create with one hand and destroy with the other. Understand this from the very first years of your service to art and prepare for this mission. Develop the necessary endurance, ethics and discipline in yourself public figure bringing into the world the beautiful, sublime and noble... The actor, by the very nature of the art he serves, is a member of a large and complex corporation - the theater group... this obliges the artist to behave with dignity outside the theater and protect his name not only on the stage, but also in his privacy. K.S. Stanislavsky

He thinks that he is a finished actor, and he is a finished actor. K.S. Stanislavsky

The art consists in the fact that the actor makes someone else's, given to him by the author of the play, his own. E.V. Vakhtangov

Just as beautiful and sublime thoughts, spoken mediocrely, lose their attractiveness and strength, so trifles will forever remain trifles. IN AND. Nemirovich-Danchenko

The theater is an actor, even if the leading role belongs to the playwright, and theatrical art is first of all acting art. IN AND. Nemirovich-Danchenko

Theater like everyone else great artist must respond to the noblest currents modern life. Otherwise it will become a dead institution. IN AND. Nemirovich-Danchenko

On January 17, 1863, a Russian theater director was born, the creator of the famous acting system, which has been immensely popular in Russia and in the world for over 100 years. National artist USSR Konstantin Stanislavsky. He owns the world-famous phrase "I do not believe!", Which he used as a director's technique. On the birthday of Konstantin Stanislavsky, we collected twenty of his most bright quotes about theater, art and life.

About the theater

"There are no small roles - there are small actors."

“An actor must learn to make the difficult habitual, the familiar easy, and the easy beautiful.”

“Good scenery for amateurs is salvation. How many actor's sins are covered with picturesqueness, which easily gives the whole performance an artistic shade! It is not for nothing that so many acting and director mediocrities are hard at work hiding on the stage behind the scenery, costumes, colorful spots, stylization, cubism, futurism and other “nems”, with the help of which they try to shock the inexperienced and naive viewer.

“When you play good, look for where he is evil, and in evil look for where he is good.”

"He thought he was a complete actor, but it turned out he was a complete actor."

"The theater begins with a hanger."

"There is only one reason for an actor not to appear in a performance - death."

"The house is laid brick by brick, and the role is stacked by small actions."

“Playing in front of a full and sympathetic audience is the same as singing in a room with good acoustics. The viewer creates, so to speak, spiritual acoustics. He receives from us and, like a resonator, returns to us his living human feelings.

“It is the law of a cheap, provincial theater - to jump up and down for every winning phrase. In the old days, actors used to say: “Oh, and I’ll give a candle to this phrase,” that is, I’ll jump so that the whole audience will gasp! Well, some grasshoppers were jumping on the stage! Who is higher, who jumps sharper!

About art

“Art is a reflection and knowledge of life; without knowing life, it is impossible to create.

“What is talent? - Soul".

"Love the art in yourself, not yourself in the art."

“For children, you need to write the same way as for adults, only even better.”

"There is no art that does not require virtuosity, and there is no definitive measure for the fullness of this virtuosity."

About life

“Every day in which you have not replenished your education with at least a small but new piece of knowledge for you ... consider it fruitless and irretrievably lost for yourself.”

"First convince, and then convince."

“While we are young, we must arm ourselves with a toothbrush and go wherever our eyes look. Laugh, do crazy things, cry, go against the system, read as much as it seems to fit in your head, love with all your might, feel. Just live".

"Learn to listen, understand and love the harsh truth about yourself."

“For those who do not know how to dress, fashions have been created.”

If two people are talking, and the third is listening to their conversation, this is already a theater.
Gustav Holoubek (b. 1923), Polish actor

The theater is like a museum: we don't go there, but it's nice to know that it exists.
Glenda Jackson (b. 1936), English actress

Crude, ordinary minds take only a pale, insignificant pleasure from reading. The theater, on the other hand, depicts everything, leaving nothing to the imagination: that is why it satisfies the majority.
Anatole France (1844 - 1924), French writer

What is theater? Oh, this is a true temple of art!
Vissarion Belinsky (1811 - 1848), critic

Let us not confuse the theater with the church, for it is more difficult to make a church into a booth than to turn a church into a booth.
Vasily Klyuchevsky (1841 - 1911), historian

I go to the theater to have fun. I don't want rape, sodomy, incest and drugs on stage. All this I can get at home.
Peter Cook (1937 - 1995), English writer

Theater. “Just think that God, who sees everything, is obliged to see this too!
Jules Renard (1864 - 1910), French writer

Bows - component performance. From the comet in the hands of the viewer should remain a tail.
Maya Plisetskaya

For children, you need to play the same way as for adults, only even better.
Konstantin Stanislavsky

Directing is incompatible with acting: an actor will fail if he looks critically at his partners.
George Bernard Shaw

How to stage a complete lack of direction?
Stanislav Lem

Life in the theater is just one season, and a season is a lifetime.
Joseph Mankiewicz

Theater is the art of reflection.
Konstantin Stanislavsky

The theater is not a reflecting mirror, but a magnifying glass.
Vladimir Mayakovsky

The theater has a great future, like everything that had a great past.
Karel Capek

By theatrical concepts if the play quickly left the stage, it is because it failed and is no good; if it has withstood many performances, it is because it is a hack that caters to base tastes.
Karel Capek

Chekhov is often staged as if he is dead and you can do whatever you want with his play.
Andrey Mikhalkov-Konchalovsky

In the first minutes, you are stunned by the mediocrity and falsity of everything - both the actors and the text. And so on the best performance.
Ilya Ilf

The best moment of any performance is immediately after the curtain rises and before the audience has time to cough.

They come to see, they come to be looked at.
Ovid

The whole world is a theater, we are all unwilling actors,
Almighty Fate distributes the roles,
And the heavens are watching our game!
Pierre de Ronsard

I do not know a profession that would require more refined forms and purer morals than the theater.
Denis Diderot

The theater teaches in a way that a thick book cannot do.
Voltaire

An intelligent actor will never put forward a role where it is not necessary, to the detriment of other roles.
Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

Sincere experience is the most controversial in the talent of an actor. It may be where it is not noticed; and, conversely, one can assume it where it does not exist at all.
Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

How far is an actor who only understands a place from an actor who at the same time experiences it!
Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

There are no bad roles for good actors.
Johann Friedrich Schiller

Vices, abuses - they do not change, but reincarnate in thousands of forms, putting on the mask of dominant morals; to tear off this mask from them and show them in an undisguised form - this is the noble task of a person who has devoted himself to the theater.
Pierre Augustin Beaumarchais

On stage, a person should be a step higher than in life.
Carl Ludwig Berne

Actor in everyday life must remember that he will be performing publicly in an artistic spectacle.
Johann Wolfgang Goethe

Everything that our soul feels in the form of vague, unclear sensations, the theater presents us in loud words and vivid images, the power of which amazes us.
Johann Friedrich Schiller

As much as living reproduction is more powerful than dead letter and cold paraphrase, so much the scene makes a deeper and more lasting impression than morality and laws.
Johann Friedrich Schiller

The theater punishes thousands of vices left unpunished by the court, and recommends thousands of virtues about which the law is silent. The theater draws deceit and lies out of their crooked labyrinths and exposes their terrible appearance to the light of day. The theater unfolds before us a panorama of human suffering. The theater artificially introduces us into the sphere of other people's disasters and rewards us with sweet tears and a luxurious increase in courage and experience for instant suffering.
Johann Friedrich Schiller

We must never forget that the theater stage serves as a public school.
Carlo Gozzi

The theater is the highest authority for solving life's issues.
Alexander Ivanovich Herzen

The theater is such a department from which you can say a lot of good to the world.
Nikolai Vasilyevich Gogol

Alexander Nikolaevich Ostrovsky

I understand the staging not at all in a heap of effects, but in the fact that what is happening on the stage touches and evokes the cordial participation of the audience.
Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky

Play it so that I don't see what's learned.
Mikhail Semenovich Shchepkin

Theater for an actor is a temple. This is his sanctuary! Your life, your honor - everything belongs irrevocably to the stage to which you have given yourself. Your fate depends on these scaffolds. Treat this temple with respect and make others respect it, worship or get out.
Mikhail Semenovich Shchepkin

Stage art is like the art of a portrait painter: it must depict characters.
Charles Gounod

One cannot sufficiently explain to the public how much effort, how much hidden work, lies in the art of the actor, seemingly so accessible and easy.
Alphonse Daudet

A true artist creates, even copying.
John Lubbock

The quality of a play is the quality of its ideas.
George Bernard Shaw

No conflict, no drama. The enemy may be on stage or off stage, behind the scenes, but he is always present in the drama.
George Bernard Shaw

The actor has spirit, but little conscience of the spirit. He always believes in that by which he makes others believe - he believes in himself!
He believes in a new way tomorrow, and the day after tomorrow - again in a different way. His feelings are swift, like those of a crowd, and his moods are just as changeable.
Friedrich Nietzsche

An actor cannot be educated and trained if you do not educate a person in him.
Maria Nikolaevna Ermolova

The theater is boring when you see not people on the stage, but actors.
Vasily Osipovich Klyuchevsky

The director who does not see the whole face of the performance has no right to come to the actors.
Vsevolod Emilievich Meyerhold

If the theater devotes itself exclusively to the classical repertoire and does not reflect modern life at all, then it risks soon becoming academically dead.
Vladimir Ivanovich Nemirovich-Danchenko

The audience goes to the theater to watch good performance good plays, and not the play itself: the play can be read.
Nikolai Alexandrovich Ostrovsky

The actor must learn to make the difficult habitual, the familiar easy, and the easy beautiful. Konstantin Sergeevich Stanislavsky

An actor, first of all, must be cultured and understand, be able to reach out to the geniuses of literature.

The heroic epoch of our life requires another actor. In every artist, servant of his state, loving son one's homeland, there must be that force of renunciation of the personal, which teaches one to rise to the heroic tension of the spirit.
Konstantin Sergeevich Stanislavsky

The only king and lord of the stage is a talented artist.
Konstantin Sergeevich Stanislavsky

If the meaning of the theater was only an entertaining spectacle, perhaps it would not be worth putting so much effort into it. But theater is the art of reflecting life.
Konstantin Sergeevich Stanislavsky

Never forget that the theater does not live by the brilliance of lights, the luxury of scenery and costumes, spectacular mise-en-scenes, but by the ideas of the playwright. The flaw in the idea of ​​the play cannot be closed by anything. No theatrical tinsel will help.
Konstantin Sergeevich Stanislavsky

Beautiful is not something that blinds and intoxicates the viewer in a theatrical way. What is beautiful is that which elevates the life of the human spirit on stage and from the stage, that is, the feelings and thoughts of artists and spectators.
Konstantin Sergeevich Stanislavsky

A good actor can, it seems to me, perfectly play the most stupid things and thereby increase their harmful influence.
Aev Nikolaevich Tolstoy

Great is the artist who makes the audience forget about the details.
Sarah Bernard

Theater should enlighten the mind. It should fill our brains with light... Let the people be taught to see things, people, themselves, and judge all this clearly. Joy, strength and enlightenment - these are the three conditions of the folk theater.
Romain Rolland

The actor who plays the lame shouldn't be lame at every turn. It is enough to limp at the right moment. The tighter, the more reliable. But it's all about the right moment. If he limps only when he knows he is being watched, he comes across as a malingerer. If he is lame all the time, we forget that he is lame. If he sometimes pretends not to limp at all, and limps when he is alone, we believe it.
Max Frisch

A play and a "role" for an actor are only a "text". From the "text" to the "game" - the distance is enormous.
Gustav Gustavovich Shpet

The actor stylizes all sensory impressions in unity.
Georg Simmel

Scenarios theatrical performances unconsciously based on life scenarios.
Eric Bern

The performance only occurs when it is performed.
Hans Georg Gadamer

The stage is a remarkable political institution.
Hans Georg Gadamer

If every play really had a happy ending, these compositions would arouse distrust in me.
Gabriel Honore Marcel

The theater is a more living fabric, capable of internal restoration than philosophical thought itself.
Gabriel Honore Marcel

Actor not equal to God rather he is "anti-God".
Gilles Deleuze

The role played by an actor is not the role of a character. This is the theme.
Gilles Deleuze

To weak play did not fail on the stage, it was placed in the foyer.

Mikhail Genin

You need to stop mixing two things - the ability to appreciate and understand roles, even whole plays, and the ability to embody them in the game ... Between an actor and an author, the relationship is about the same as between a carpenter or a bricklayer and an architect. They don't have to understand.

Bernard Show

A theater that has reached perfection can no longer be helped.

N.P. Akimov

Let us not confuse the theater with the church, for it is more difficult to make a farce into a church than to turn a church into a farce.

IN. Klyuchevsky

There are two ways to arouse the interest of the audience in the theatre: by means of the great or by the truthful. The great captures the masses, the truthful bribes individuals.

Victor Hugo

People come to the theater not to watch tears, but to listen to the speeches that shed them.

Denis Diderot

A person whose imagination is speculative cannot influence others.

G.A. Tovstonogov

To check whether the actors are playing correctly or not, you need to put a thick glass between them and the audience, if the audience is not audible, but understandable, therefore, they are playing correctly.

A.V. Efros

The theater is like a museum: we don't go there, but it's nice to know that it exists.

Glenda Jackson

If two people are talking, and the third is listening to their conversation, this is already a theater.

Gustav Holoubek

I serve the public, but do not worship it.

Bernard Show

A theater critic is a person who explains to an astonished playwright the meaning of his play.

Wilson Mizner

If you have tears, get ready to shed them.

Shakespeare

The theater is such a department from which you can say a lot of good to the world.

N.V. Gogol

Perhaps one of the reasons for the birth of the Stanislavsky system is the constant and sad thought of the author - the actor that the performance always turns out to be worse than the drama itself.

Yu.K. Olesha

A true artist creates, even copying.

G. Lebon

This happens quite often: the main difficulty is not the main role.

Bernard Show

The stage is the frontal place of the theatre.

Gennady Malkin

Extreme sensitivity creates mediocre actors; average sensitivity produces most bad actors, and only its absence produces great actors.

Denis Diderot

We don't see the best and worst actors on the stage.

Romain Rolland

When an actor has money, he sends not letters, but telegrams.

A.P. Chekhov

When an actor does not understand who he is playing, he willy-nilly plays himself.

IN. Klyuchevsky

Most best actors Of course, Disney. He simply erases a bad actor.

Alfred Hitchcock

An actor is something less than a man; an actress is something more than a woman.

Richard Burton

You don't have to be moved to be touched.

Denis Diderot

Do not confuse: actors die from lack of praise, real people die from dislike.

Friedrich Nietzsche

The actor must make the audience forget the existence of the author, the existence of the director, and even the existence of the actor.

Paul Scofield

It is customary to glorify a playwright who knows how to extract tears. Even the most miserable onion has this talent.

Heine

Leonid Leonidov

There are plays so weak that they just can't get off the stage.

Stanislav Jerzy Lec

The last act never succeeds on stage. One can only be surprised that, despite such a sad experience, playwrights continue to persevere in their plays to have a last act.

Karel Capek

If in the first act a gun hangs on the stage, then in the last it must go off.

A.P. Chekhov

Actors don't like being killed in the second act of a four-act play.

Ilya Ilf

If in the first action a gun hangs on the wall, then in the last it should misfire.

V.V. Nabokov

Too many playwrights don't understand their role on the stage.

Stanislav Jerzy Lec

Denis Diderot

I love melodrama. Because I am a realist.

Stanislav Jerzy Lec

They praise the playwright who sheds tears from the viewer; this talent he shares with the onion.

Heine

The farce of reality can often be conveyed on stage only by tragedy.

Stanislav Jerzy Lec

Dramatist: ventriloquist of the soul.

Stanislav Jerzy Lec

The theater did excellently without directors for about two thousand five hundred and thirty-five years.

Walter Kerr

Why is the prompter sitting in a cage? Because once he tried to tell the director.

Barbu Rabiy

The director must have the soul of a poet and the will of a corporal.

Andrzej Wajda

It is pitiful to see a cabaret that imitates the theatre; it is even sadder to see a theater mediocrely imitating a cabaret.

Anthony Slonimsky

In the theater, the director is God, but the actors, alas, are atheists.

Hot Petan

Another iron repertoire should have been scrapped long ago.

Stanislav Jerzy Lec

There are three types of directors: smart, inventive, and the majority.

Jean Cocteau

There are two types of directors: some think they are gods, others know it for sure.

Retta Hughes

They clinked glasses on the stage so naturally that the audience was drawn to the buffet.

Tsal Melamed

If this director "dies in the actor", the actor will not live.

Mikhail Genin

A director is a person who is unlucky in acting, and an actor is a person who is unlucky in life.

Gustav Holoubek

In our business (directing) there are always more surrendered than losers.

A. German

Director: A person hired by theater directors to determine that actors can't act.

James Aygat

The director must die in the actor.

IN AND. Nemirovich-Danchenko

If the director finally dies in the actor, can his wife remarry?

N.P. Akimov

Naturalism in some theaters is extraordinary! Even the smell of footcloths comes from the stage. Only people are untrustworthy.

Stanislav Jerzy Lec

How more talented actor, the more directors dream of dying in it.

Mikhail Tenin

Theater Quotes

The theater teaches in a way that a thick book cannot do. Voltaire

The theater is not a reflecting mirror, but a magnifying glass. Vladimir Vladimirovich Mayakovsky

The theater is the only place where the poor can look down on the rich. Will Rogers

The theater is such a department from which you can say a lot of good to the world. Nikolai Vasilyevich Gogol

Sometimes the least pleasure in the theater comes from the play. More than once I saw an audience that was more interesting than the actors, and heard dialogue in the foyer that surpassed what I heard from the stage. Oscar Wilde

The theater punishes thousands of vices left unpunished by the court, and recommends thousands of virtues about which the law is silent. The theater draws deceit and lies out of their crooked labyrinths and exposes their terrible appearance to the light of day. The theater unfolds before us a panorama of human suffering. The theater artificially introduces us into the sphere of other people's disasters and rewards us with sweet tears and a luxurious increase in courage and experience for instant suffering. Johann Friedrich Schiller

The theater has a great future, like everything that had a great past. Karel Capek

Theatrical tears wean from worldly ones. Vasily Osipovich Klyuchevsky

The audience goes to the theater to see a good performance of good plays, and not the play itself, the play can be read. Alexander Nikolaevich Ostrovsky

The whole world is a theater, but the troupe is no good. Oscar Wilde

I do not know a profession that would require more refined forms and purer morals than the theater. Denis Diderot

Life is like a play in the theatre: what matters is not how long it lasts, but how well it is played. Lucius Annaeus Seneca (junior)

We must never forget that the theater stage serves as a public school. Carlo Gozzi

People should know that in the theater of life only God and the angels are allowed to be spectators. Francis Bacon

Substance is immortal, forms alone are perishable. The Lord's world is a theater. It has free admission, and the domes hung at the top vault of heaven. Pierre de Ronsard

Life is the most best theater Yes, sorry, the repertoire is bad. Oscar Wilde

A long relationship with a woman is possible only if you can laugh with her in the theater. If possible, be silent together. If you can be sad together. Otherwise, everything goes to hell. Kurt Tucholsky

If you call a spade a spade, then the most integral, significant and noble roles in the Theater of Life are performed by amateur actors and cause only a lazy yawn in the viewer. Robert Louis Stevenson

Hurry to develop and decorate your own character, then you have to live, as if in a theater, in front of the audience. Plutarch

There are people who still do not understand one of the main mysteries of the theater: you cannot pronounce the word “which” there. The words "which", "in the meantime" and the like can be said without difficulty, but they cannot be played. Karel Capek

One young braggart said in the theater that he was smart, because he talked with many philosophers. Epictetus remarked to him: "Here I have many acquaintances of the rich, but still I am not a rich man." Epictetus

The earth is a vast theater in which the same tragedy is played under different titles. Voltaire

If we were resurrected in our days ancient greek, then it would be more common to meet him in the circus than in the theater. Oscar Wilde

The theater is the highest authority for solving life's issues. Alexander Ivanovich Herzen

For theater to have an impact on life, it must be stronger, more intense. Everyday life. Franz Kafka

The only art that the public can judge is the art of theater. An individual viewer, and especially a critic, is talking nonsense, but all together they are right. In literature, the opposite is true. Karl Kraus

In theatrical terms, if a play quickly left the stage, it is because it failed and is no good; if it has withstood many performances, it is because it is a hack that caters to base tastes. Karel Capek