Ariane Mnouchkine Quotes

I hate the word 'production'...it's a ceremony, it's a ritual...you should go out of the theatre stronger and more human than when you went in.

Ariane Mnouchkine

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• I'm thinking of doing more theatre. It makes me very happy.

  

  Rachel Weisz
  • Thinking
  • Happy
  • Theatre

• Censure is a limp noodle across the wrist of the president. I think the way we vote on the articles will express the way we feel stronger than any censure vote.

  

  Larry Craig
  • Think
  • Vote
  • Stronger

• Sometimes love is stronger than a man's convictions.

  

  Isaac Bashevis Singer
  • Love
  • Man
  • Stronger

• The last time I had to make a career decision, I was 17. I could have gone to Ballet Theatre or National Ballet of Canada. There were options. But as I became exposed to the Robbins repertoire, I realized that there was a living genius in the house.

  

  Damian Woetzel
  • Time
  • Career
  • House

• My mum was no pushy parent. She would drop me off for auditions when I was in my teens at the Lyric Theatre, then give me my bus fare and say she would see me later at home. She wasn't hanging around in the wings geeing me on. I had to do it on my own; it was up to me.

  

  Rachel Tucker
  • Home
  • Theatre
  • Parent

• There's such a sense of theatre in getting glammed up; it's like putting on a play or short film.

  

  Felicity Jones
  • Up
  • Play
  • Theatre

• I understood, through rehab, things about creating characters. I understood that creating whole people means knowing where we come from, how we can make a mistake and how we overcome things to make ourselves stronger.

  

  Samuel L. Jackson
  • People
  • Mistake
  • Stronger

• I did a drama degree, went to secretarial college, then got a job with a theatre company in Birmingham. It's been a slow burn, which doesn't seem to have gone out.

  

  Tamsin Greig
  • Job
  • College
  • Drama

• I used to be one of the lead actors of a theatre group called Hetu when I was in medical school. Prithvi Theatre was our stomping ground. I'd got many positive reviews.

  

  Vikram Patel
  • School
  • Positive
  • Theatre

• I never thought I would become that person who loves working out. It sucks while you're doing it, but the second you finish, it's like, 'Wow, I feel great! I'm stronger and much more confident.'

  

  Zoey Deutch
  • Great
  • Thought
  • Stronger

• I started in theatre. I went to the Boston Conservatory and majored in musical theater.

  

  Rachael MacFarlane
  • Theatre
  • Theater
  • Boston

• Confession of errors is like a broom which sweeps away the dirt and leaves the surface brighter and clearer. I feel stronger for confession.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Feel
  • Strength
  • Stronger

• Why do you act? You act for an audience. In the theatre, you're in their presence. Film stars don't know what it is to have an audience.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • Why
  • Know
  • Theatre

• I'd like to be for cinema what Shakespeare was for theatre, Marx for politics and Freud for psychology: someone after whom nothing is as it used to be.

  

  Rainer Werner Fassbinder
  • Politics
  • Theatre
  • Psychology

• Musical theatre is something that I always wanted to be a part of, and my first ever role on the West End as Joseph in 'Joseph And The Technicolor Dreamcoat' gave me a taste for it.

  

  Gareth Gates
  • Me
  • End
  • Theatre

• I went to Paris for a year in 1986 to study theatre; there was a lot of clowning around, buffoonery and fencing. It was then that my own style kind of blossomed.

  

  Orla Brady
  • Style
  • Study
  • Theatre

• My son Gautham usually doesn't watch my films. But he watched 'Srimanthudu' in the theatre.

  

  Mahesh Babu
  • Son
  • Theatre
  • Watch

• My advice to young actors is probably to do some theatre; definitely do that. I keep running into these actors who have never been on stage, and it's invaluable for an actor. What you will learn about yourself is huge.

  

  Yul Vazquez
  • Running
  • Advice
  • Yourself

• There are always new things to experience, internalize then write about. This process is ongoing with me. It never stops. The opportunity to reach new audiences with all of the music that we have made is thrilling.

  

  Graham Nash
  • Music
  • Experience
  • Opportunity

• I do have a huge fascination for science, and I love to hear what my dad has to say. He used to take me into minor surgeries when I was a kid and let me watch, so I definitely have a passion for it, but it's not as big a passion as I have for acting and creating characters.

  

  Daniela Ruah
  • Science
  • Dad
  • Passion

• Rosencrantz: We might as well be dead. Do you think death could possibly be a boat? Guildenstern: No, no, no... Death is...not. Death isn't. You take my meaning. Death is the ultimate negative. Not-being. You can't not-be on a boat. Rosencrantz: I've frequently not been on boats. Guildenstern: No, no, no--what you've been is not on boats.

  

  Tom Stoppard
  • Thinking
  • Death
  • Might

• There are certain times you realize you've got too much money. One was when I started getting bills from the Koi hotel. When I was remodeling the Koi pond, the Koi had to go to the Koi hotel. They ended up staying there for 13 months and I never asked what the bill was.

  

  Sam Simon
  • Up
  • Money
  • Never

• My parents were divorced when I was three, and both my father and mother moved back into the homes of their parents. I spent the school year with my mother, and the summers with my dad.

  

  Patricia Polacco
  • School
  • Mother
  • Father

• I hate the word 'production'...it's a ceremony, it's a ritual...you should go out of the theatre stronger and more human than when you went in.

  

  Ariane Mnouchkine
  • Theatre
  • Stronger
  • Go Out