Horace Walpole Quotes

The Opera is obviously the first draft of a fine spectacle; it suggests the idea of one.

I've always loved drama. This is a blessing because I can show a little bit of what I can do, and hopefully more, in the future.

The theatre, when all is said and done, is not life in miniature, but life enormously magnified, life hideously exaggerated.

I don't like to act because my life is a pantomime anyway.

I've always said I prefer theater, but there's only ever been one play that I really loved doing, and that was The Seagull.

The Greek playwrights, we're all beholden to them, every one of us.

You can equate acting to a tennis game: When you're playing one of the best, you get better.

Life is a tragedy wherein we sit as spectators for a while and then act our part in it.

I grew up going to the theater. That was one of the nice things my mom did was she took us to plays and symphony concerts and to the museums. Theater captured my imagination. I just loved the idea of that box, which is essentially what a stage is from a certain distance, a box with all this life going on in it. So, I was eleven when I wrote my first play. Of course, it was horrible.

They were stars on this stage, each playing to an audience of two.

I love to act, I've always wanted to be an actor. I think that acting and fiction go nicely together - being able to visualize language as something you perform, not just something that's there on the page.

Work in the theater is more fun than fun.

The word theatre comes from the Greeks. It means the seeing place.

Drama - what literature does at night.

I'm addicted to acting.

All the world's a stage, and all the men and women mearly players.

A laughing Lear would be monstrous. Not so a laughing Romeo and Juliet.

Comedy defends the commonplace; tragedy explodes it.

The only thing I won't do is theater.

We're more of the love, blood, and rhetoric school. Well, we can do you blood and love without the rhetoric, and we can do you blood and rhetoric without the love, and we can do you all three concurrent or consecutive. But we can't give you love and rhetoric without the blood. Blood is compulsory. They're all blood, you see.

In movies, comedy and tragedy are all the same.

But our comedies never endured long without a tragedy.

A stage space has two rules: (1) Anything can happen and (2) Something must happen.

I love acting. I love play-acting. I love pretending. I love telling stories so whether they be comedic or serious or whatever, it doesn't really matter to me. I enjoy telling a good story. I have it all in me.

Is a gay play a play that has sex with other plays?