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The
Nastiest, Rudest, & Crudest
Stuff Ever Said
About the Theater
 Despite
the obvious glitz and glamour, working in the theater is
a job like any other - with backbiting gossip you'd find
around any corporate water cooler.
Take
a trip backstage, below, and check out the worst comments,
nasty asides and other really juicy offstage tidbits ever
said by famous actors, playwrights, directors and other
showfolk in the know...
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The
only reason anyone goes to Broadway is because they can't
get work in the movies. --
Bette Davis
- It's
one of the tragic ironies of the theatre that only one man
in it can count on steady work -- the night watchman.
-- Tallulah Bankhead
- Next
to a tenor, a wardrobe woman is the touchiest thing in show
business.
[Birdie, in All About Eve] -- Joseph Mankiewicz
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The
play was a great success, but the audience was a disaster.
--Oscar Wilde
- Shakespeare's
plays are bad enough, but yours are even worse. --Leo
Tolstoy, to Anton Chekov
- I
have no intention of uttering my last words on the stage.
Room service and a couple of depraved young women will do
me quite nicely for an exit. -- Peter O'Toole
- If
a playwright tried to see eye to eye with everybody, he
would get the worst case of strabismus since Hannibal lost
an eye trying to count his nineteen elephants during a snowstorm
while crossing the Alps. -- James Thurber
- Theater
people are always pining and agonizing because they're afraid
that they'll be forgotten. And in America they're quite
right. They will be. -- Agnes De Mille
- I
had learned to have a perfect nausea for the theatre: the
continual repetition of the same words and the same gestures,
night after night, and the caprices, the way of looking
at life, and the entire rigmarole disgusted me. -- Isadora
Duncan
- Acting
is the art of speaking in a loud clear voice and the avoidance
of bumping into the furniture. -- Alfred Lunt
- To
save the theatre, the theatre must be destroyed, the actors
and actresses must all die of the plague. They poison the
air, they make art impossible. It is not drama that they
play, but pieces for the theatre. We should return to the
Greeks, play in the open air; the drama dies of stalls and
boxes and evening dress, and people who come to digest their
dinner. -- Eleanor Duse
- The
virtue of dress rehearsals is that they are a free show
for a select group of artists and friends of the author,
and where for one unique evening the audience is almost
expurgated of idiots. -- Alfred Jarry
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