Empty Theatre Quotes

#1. I always liked the visuals to be choice and at the same time minimalist. And, I love black boxes. After all, that's what theatre is, it's an empty space, and it's both limited and unlimited because the space is the space, but what you can do with people's imaginations is really endless.

Harold Prince

#2. The only good soul is a lost soul, and only a lost soul can find its way home.

Trebor Healey

#3. The theatre fulfills, whereas the cinema is empty.

Marie Trintignant

#4. The body and mind are dependent.

Swami Vivekananda

#5. There is always a sacred hour in the theatre - after rehearsals and before performances, in the afternoon, between three and five o'clock. Normally the theatre is empty then, and this is a wonderful hour.

Henning Mankell

#6. Silver's sweet and gold's our mother, but once you're dead they're worth less than that last shit you take as you lie dying.

George R R Martin

#7. Against the odds, they refuse to succeed.

Charles Baxter

#8. Holding on to the past means you can never be open to having a future

Laurann Dohner

#9. In the US, the problem is primary and secondary education. We've had such an increase in inequality because a quarter of American kids don't finish high school!

Milton Friedman

#10. The higher state to which [America] seeks the allegiance of all mankind is not of human, but of divine origin. She cherishes no purpose save to merit the favor of Almighty God.

Calvin Coolidge

#11. Born for the blue skies,
We'll survive the rain.
Born for the sunrise,
We'll survive the pain.

Switchfoot

#12. A stage set should not make a pretty picture of its own. The empty stage should look formal and pleasing, but should seem to be waiting for the action to complete it; it should not hold definite significance in itself.

G. Wilson Knight

#13. Jesus Christ is the outstanding personality of our time. Every act and word of Jesus has value for us. He became the light of the world. Why shouldn't I, a Jew, be proud of that?

Sholem Asch

#14. I can take any empty space and call it a bare stage. A man walks across this empty space, whilst someone else is watching him, and this is all that is needed for an act of theatre to be engaged.

Peter Brook

#15. They got Indian vision and can sight back further than you and me will ever sight ahead.

Ray Bradbury

#16. I seldom feel comfortable in a theatre. I always feel like I own a cinema. I feel equally happy in an empty one as a full one. Probably happier in an empty one!

Martin McDonagh