Quotes About Theatre Brecht

#1. I was interested in the ways that artists responded to totalitarianism - the Czech Jazz Section, Romanian absurdist theatre, Brecht's alienation effect. The anything-goes, anarchic qualities of jazz and Surrealism seemed to offer a way to cross some of the forbidden frontiers of Eastern Europe.

Nicholas Royle

#2. To create a past that seemed authentic but would be a fiction, you need an invented language.

Jeanette Winterson

#3. Don't expect the theatre to satisfy the habits of its audience, but to change them.

Bertolt Brecht

#4. In becoming dirt, she has been turned to stone. To touch her is to feel a chill.

Victor Hugo

#5. The journey is what brings us happiness not the destination.

Dan Millman

#6. The little light he possessed spread its beams so narrowly, that frustrated belief was a curtain broad enough to create for him the blackness of night.

George Eliot

#7. Only love will attract love."~ Amunhotep El Bey

Amunhotep El Bey

#8. We need a type of theatre which not only releases the feelings, insights and impulses possible within the particular historical field of human relations in which the action takes place, but employs and encourages those thoughts and feelings which help transform the field itself.

Bertolt Brecht

#9. It is important to me that people believe in me as a model, trust in me as a model - which they do in London and New York - which is why sometimes I think I'm an Anglo-Saxon woman at heart.

Noemie Lenoir

#10. Sin is what is new, strong, surprising, strange. The theatre must take an interest in sin if the young are to be able to go there.

Bertolt Brecht

#11. The NHS is a bit iffy when you sprain an ankle, but when it's a high-priority issue, it's fantastic. They don't mess about. They're incredibly efficient when things go wrong.

Sophie Ellis-Bextor

#12. From the start it has been the theatre's business to entertain people ... it needs no other passport than fun.

Bertolt Brecht

#13. After I knock out Randy Couture, I'll fight for the heavyweight title, the real heavyweight boxing title in October or November, come back and fight in the UFC in January or February. It doesn't matter, I'm a two sport athlete. The oldest man to ever do that.

James Toney

#14. Life is too short to waste being a productive member of society.

Sol Luckman

#15. Education is really aimed at helping students
get to the point
where they can learn on their own ...

Noam Chomsky

#16. In war the will is directed at an animate object that reacts.

Carl Von Clausewitz

#17. Without hardships, how could we know hope?

Lailah Gifty Akita

#18. I don't worry about maintaining the quality of my life, because every day I work on improving it.

Tony Robbins

#19. I was kind of confused. I thought, Well, if I get drafted, I'll go. Everybody was very concerned with it. I had friends who went. Some that came back and some that didn't.

Tom Berenger