One's roused by this, another finds that fit: Each loves the play for what he brings to it.

You need three things in the theatre-the play, the actors and the audience, and each must give something.

Playwriting, like begging in India, is an honorable but humbling profession.

The frivolity with which all theatrical activity is conducted has one consoling feature-there are no rules of behavior that apply regularly to any part of the theatre.

There is nothing that one can say about acting, writing, producing or directing that cannot be revoked in the next breath. Nothing is immutable. The logic of one year is a folly of the next.

I think theatre should always be somewhat suspect.

The stage but echoes back the public voice. The drama's laws the drama's patrons give, For we that live to please, must please to live.

We do not go to the theatre, like our ancestors, to escape from the pressure of reality, so much as to confirm our experience of it.

Words can be deceitful, but pantomime necessarily is simple, clear and direct.

If the audience never understands the plot, it can be counted on to be attentive to the very end.