Robert Lepage Quotes

Back through the ages of barbarism and civilization, in all tongues, we find this instinctive pleasure in the imitative action that is the very essence of all drama.

I think wrestling is the one that presents theater for people who want to see some theater but don't necessarily have to dress up or be quiet while they're watching.

Storytelling is as old as speech. It existed before humans first began to carve shapes in stones and press their hands upon the rocky walls of caves.

Literature is love. I think it went like this: drawings in the cave, sounds in the cave, songs in the cave, songs about us. Later, stories about us.

Theater is an old thing. It's thousands of years old. TV isn't. Film isn't. We're doing a really old thing.

I'd love to go back to Greek times and see the birth of theater and performing, in that time. It would be so extraordinary to see the need that theater came out of, in the first place. I think we could probably all learn a bit from that.

The theater is so endlessly fascinating because it's so accidental. It's so much like life.

I did plays in college, and I have half of a play. But I'm kind of stuck. I keep revisiting it so maybe it will move somewhere. There's something about plays where you can feel that sense of artifice at any moment.

Theater is about surprises and things that you haven't seen before on stage.

I love plays. Even bad ones. I like the fact that actual live, breathing people are standing before you in tense situations that you are not personally responsible for.

Theater is so ephemeral, and I love that.

Poetry is one of the oldest of all art forms, and one of its powers for shamans and tribal leaders was the mnemonic.

Acted drama requires surrender of one's self, sympathetic absorption in the play as it develops.

I try to picture my books being acted out.

I love stories. When I'm writing, what I pretend subconsciously is that we're cavemen, we're sitting around the fire, and I'm telling you stories. If I bore you, you're probably going to pick up a big club and hit me over the head.

I'm an interpreter of stories. When I perform it's like sitting down at my piano and telling fairy stories.

I am a storyteller, and I take great pride in the storytelling and a great joy.

You're not going to find a more committed performer than Sandra Oh - to every single word, action, history that informs the future. Every little thing.

Plays have a celebratory nature that no other form has. Theater always meant celebration, a birthday, a reward for good grades. I felt at home in a theater. I loved being part of an audience. All the rules - the audience has to see the play on a certain date at a certain time in a certain place in a certain seat.

Storytelling has always been one of my great pleasures.

I am a storyteller by trade.

Compared to film or television, theater is more interactive, collaborative.

Modern storytellers are the descendants of an immense and ancient community of holy people, troubadours, bards, griots, cantadoras, cantors, traveling poets, bums, hags, and crazy people.

There's no place more theatrical than history.

Monologues are fun.