By whatever means it is accomplished, the prime business of a play is to arouse the passions of its audience so that by the route of passion may be opened up new relationships between a man and men, and between men and Man. Drama is akin to the other inventions of man in that it ought to help us to know more, and not merely to spend our feelings.
-Arthur Miller
Too often actors think it’s all about them, when in reality it’s all about the audience being able to recognize themselves in you.
-Ben Kingsley
I believe that in a great city, or even in a small city or a village, a great theater is the outward and visible sign of an inward and probable culture.
-Sir Laurence Olivier