Every now and then, when you're on stage, you hear the best sound a player can hear. It's a sound you can't get in movies or in television. It is the sound of a wonderful, deep silence that means you've hit them where they live.

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

The truth is you don't like the theater except the times when you're in a room by yourself putting the play on paper.

We do not go (to the theater), like our ancestors, to escape from the pressure of reality, so much as to confirm our experiences of it.

Coming to New York and not going to the theater is like going to bed with a beautiful woman and not making love.

My soul, sit thou a patient looker-on; Judge not the play before the play is done: Her plot hath many changes; every day Speaks a new scene; the last act crowns the play.

Not to go to the theater is like making one's toilet without a mirror.

All the world's a stage And all the men and women merely players.

Play out the play ...

... the play's the thing Wherein I'll catch the conscience of the king.