Quotes by Theatre Directors - Page 2

Torvald: I would gladly work night and day for you, Nora--bear sorrow and want for your sake. But no man would sacrifice his honour for the one he loves. Nora: But hundreds of thousands of women have done!

NORA: No; only merry. And you were always so friendly and kind to me. But our house has been nothing but a nursery. Here I have been your doll-wife, just as at home I used to be papa's doll-child. And my children were, in their turn, my dolls. I was exceedingly delighted when you played with me, just as children were whenever I played with them. That has been our marriage, Torvald.

To live is - to war with trolls In the holds of the heart and mind

A thousand words leave not the same deep impression as does a single deed.

We do not wait for inspiration. We work because we've jolly well got to. But when all is said and done, we toil at this particular job because it's turned out to be our particular job, and in a weird sort of way I suppose we may be said to like it.

It's not only what we have inherited from our father and mother that walks in us. It's all sorts of dead ideas, and lifeless old beliefs, and so forth. They have no vitality, but they cling to us all the same, and we can't get rid of them.

My feeling is that a good teacher can get results using any method, and that a bad teacher can wreck any method.

To live is to war with trolls.

In the language of an actor, to know is synonymous with to feel

A minority may be right a majority is always wrong.

Most people are ennobled by the actual presence of death. But how long do you suppose this nobility will last in him?