[Waiting for Godot] has achieved a theoretical impossibility—a play in which nothing happens, that yet keeps audiences glued to their seats. What's more, since the second act is a subtly different reprise of the first, he has written a play in which nothing happens, twice.

Vivian Mercier

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I think on-stage nudity is disgusting, shameful and damaging to all things American. But if I were 22 with a great body, it would be artistic, tasteful, patriotic, and a progressive religious experience.

Shelley Winters

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I'm really very sorry for you all, but it's an unjust world, and virtue is triumphant only in theatrical performances.

W.S. Gilbert

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All the world's a stage and most of us are desperately unrehearsed.

Seán O'Casey

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The Play's the Thing, wherein I'll catch the conscience of the King.

William Shakespeare

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The plays should have the half-life of plutonium.

Suzan-Lori Parks

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Exit, pursued by a bear.

William Shakespeare

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How hard is it, when everything encourages us to sleep, though we may look about us with conscious, clinging eyes, to wake and yet look about us as in a dream, with eyes that no longer know their function and whose gaze is turned inward.

Antonin Artaud

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I cannot conceive any work of art as having a separate existence from life itself

Antonin Artaud

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Sin in the theater, I can observe now, is comparable to education in a university: it is there for those who wish to take advantage of it, but fewer do than you might suspect.

Billie Burke

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