Theater Quotes

The novel is more of a whisper, whereas the stage is a shout.

The only thing that matters is the theater!

The reason why I like theater is because it's a long journey, and no matter what role you play, we are all in it together.

This is the theater. And this is the best place for the imagination.

The talent that I was blessed with was really for the theater.

Theater going is a communal act, movie going a solitary one.

Do some work in the theater if you can. It is the best training you can get.

I did a play I think my first six months on the show, called Bullpen. Then I got involved with Theater Forty and did this play called Plastic which is about two male models coming to a casting call.

The difference - the fundamental difference between theater acting and film acting is that film acting is disjunctive.

Film actors reach a certain level, but they don't get beyond it unless they work in the theater.

I started acting when I was 10, doing musical theater. I was a brunette at that time. I was always cast in all the exotic parts.

Theater Games are a process applicable to any field, discipline, or subject matter which creates a place where full participation, communication, and transformation can take place.

The most stringent protection of free speech would not protect a man in falsely shouting fire in a theater and causing a panic.

Anyone interested in design must be interested in other fields of expression - theater, ballet, photography, literature, music.

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

The perfection in theater is that it's over the second it's done

For me, you say the words 'concept record,' and the first thing I think of is theater or the opera or something.

The theater is a school we shall never have done with studying and learning.

If you don't want your children to know the truth about life don't send 'em to the theater to see Moms 'cause I'm gonna tell them THE TRUTH, hear?

I like melodrama because it is situated just at the meeting point between life and theater.

In this theater of man's life, it is reserved only for God and angels to be lookers-on.

To me, theater is the mecca; if you really love to act, that's where it's the most fun, by a long shot.

The adrenaline of a live performance is unlike anything in film or theater. I can see why it's so addictive.

The true theater, because it moves and makes use of living instruments, continues to stir up shadows where life has never ceased to grope its way.

Will TV kill the theater? If the programs I have seen, save for "Kukla, Fran and Ollie," the ball games and the fights, are any criterion, the theater need not wake up in a cold sweat.

I think my favorite place to eat dinner is the movie theater. Dirty dogs, a big thing of nachos and a Cherry Coke - and I'm good.

My college degree was in theater. But the real reason, if I have any success in that milieu, so to speak, is because I spent a lot of years directing, I spent a lot of years behind the camera

When I entered college, I wasn't sure what I was going to do. My advisor happened to be from the theater department, and he encouraged me to take some classes there, which I did.

One does not go to the theater to escape from himself, but to reestablish contact with the mystery that we all are.

Theater has given me a different perspective on the way I approach films.

I work in between the cracks, where the voice starts dancing, where the body starts singing, where theater becomes cinema.

If you really want to help the American theater, don't be an actress, dahling. Be an audience.

I work constantly but I work at a lot of different things. You know, I run a theater company in New York, I direct plays, act in plays, in movies, so I try to keep it eclectic.

So far, I have been a spectator in this theater which is the world, but I am now about to mount the stage, and I come forward masked.

I'm a classical ballet dancer, and at the end of the day I want to be with American Ballet Theater, performing classical ballets.

You go to a theater now and you literally see parents watching the movie and they suddenly cover their kid's ears. I figured I'd make one movie where they didn't have to do this.

There's such a thing as theater discipline. One player doesn't appropriate another's inventions

In a theater you can fool everyone past the tenth row if you're good, but on the screen you can't really fool anyone for a second.

Just sit and open your eyes and open your heart. It's dance theater.

Now, when I started my theater, the modus operandi was having the actors stare right into the audience.

Theater is perhaps one of the few places left where we are in a dialogue right now. Everything has become so partisan, and the rhetoric has become so heated, that conversation is almost impossible.

If I hadn't gone into the theater, I would be a painter.

I had been a kid that moved so much, I didn’t have a lot of friends. Theater really represented that kind of camaraderie.

The theater, when it is potent enough to deserve its ancestry, is always dangerous; that is why it is instinctively feared by people who do not want change, but only preservation of the status quo.

I mean, the whole idea of movies was it was special to go to see; you went to a movie theater to see something that was magical and amazing, in a very special location.

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.

Let's just say that the theater is not for the faint of heart.

Every person on the streets of New York is a type. The city is one big theater where everyone is on display.

I love all of the arts. I love motion pictures. I love stage. I love theater.

I couldn't remember my name for weeks. I'd be at the theater and hear them calling 'Miss Stanwyck, Miss Stanwyck,' and I'd think 'Where is that dame? Why doesn't she answer? By crickie, it's me!