Eric Bentley Quotes

I'd like to be in a play with Mark Rylance.

No drama, however great, is entirely independent of the stage on which it is given.

I'd love to do some new plays.

I played comedies and dramas.

One of things I'd love to do one day is a Shakespeare with Trevor Nunn. I've done musicals with him, but never Shakespeare. There's no one better.

I'm an actor. I want to do drama.

I'm a drama guy.

I'm dying to do a Sam Shepard play. 'Curse of the Starving Class,' 'Buried Child,' 'True West,' 'Cowboy Mouth,' 'Fool for Love' - I'll do any of them.

In the theatre, as anyone knows who's even done amateur theatre all their lives, you immediately find a family there. Because you're under stress, you're trying to create something, you're putting on a show, you find brothers and sisters right away.

Well, first of all I'll say that I come alive best in theater.

As a child, I was always interested in drama and performance.

I'm a dramatist.

Someday I'd love to do Shakespeare.

A play is a passion.

I'm a drama nerd.

If I weren't performing, there is a real chance that I would be a 'One Man, Two Guvnors' groupie. I think that production is masterful in every way.

We hope to do the Spanish Tragedy based on the play by Thomas Kyd.

Playwrights are the most gregarious writers - to get our work done, we need actors, directors, set designers.

If theatre paid as well as movies and TV, I'd do it all the time.

The part an actor played on stage was once written on a separate roll of paper.

I love the theatre and theatre people.

Theatre was always my passion.

There are only three indispensable things: the audience, the actor and the author. The rest is dross.

I've played Lear three times, I would love to do it again.

All the world's a stage, and all the clergymen critics.