"When American life is most American it is apt to be most theatrical."

-- Ralph Ellison

#Life Is Quotes #Theatrical Quotes

“It's not like suddenly, when you become a working actor all your friends are in the same situation. I have friends who are still handing out flyers for their one-woman show and trying to make ends meet.”
“Taste is pursued at a less expense than fashion.”

Source : William Shenstone (1868). “Essays on Men and Manners”, p.248
“I see America, not in the setting sun of a black night of despair ahead of us, I see America in the crimson light of a rising sun fresh from the burning, creative hand of God. I see great days ahead, great days possible to men and women of will and vision”
“Islam has values, following the Koran and the example of Mohammed and they form people very profoundly and for some Muslims it creates a vision of a very different society and a hope it will be established.”
“I feel like we put all the weight on the president, rather than distributing the weight to all of the elected officials.”

Source : Source: www.complex.com
“The important thing in science is not so much to obtain new facts as to discover new ways of thinking about them.”
“If we don't have an informed electorate we don't have a democracy. So I don't care how people get the information, as long as they get it. I'm just doing it my particular way and I feel lucky I can do it the way I want to do it.”

Source : "Jim Lehrer on Billy Bob, Reports of Rain and Stenography As Journalism". Interview with Liz Cox Barrett, www.cjr.org. June 2, 2006.
“Theatre is a mirror, a sharp reflection of society. The greatest playwrights are moralists.”

Source : "Yasmina Reza: 'There's no point in writing theatre if it's not accessible'". Interview with Elizabeth Day, www.theguardian.com. January 21, 2012.

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