Theater Quotes
I think theater is powerful. The best experiences I had in the theater are more powerful than the best experiences I had in movies.
When you go to the theater, if you're really involved in the play, you don't think about it - you're in it.
In the summer of 2009, I was at the Shakespeare lab at the public theater in New York.
If you're playing around with a film, you're just playing around with it. But if it has to go into theaters, you get yourself into gear and finish it.
I would really love theater. I would love to do Shakespeare, that would be amazing. You know, it's whatever really comes my way.
I acted when I was a real little kid. My mother was an actress in a Miami theater company comprised of actors from Cuba like her and I was the default kid.
I've been doing musical theater since I was a kid. And look for a CD from me in the future. I want to write all the songs!
I did theater for a few years while I was in New York, but it was tough having to perform scripts worse than what I knew I could write.
The success of 'Scrubs' allowed me to pursue anything I felt passionately about without having to worry about money. It allowed me to spend my summer work shopping my show at a nonprofit theater.
I never had any film training. I went to Northwestern. I studied education and theater. So it was all theater training.
I started in theater, and I love to go back to theater, just to have the experience and recharge my batteries, creatively.
I was definitely an extroverted personality at a young age and theater was an outlet for me to channel that energy.
When I got out of school, it used to be that it was theater actors that ended up doing film and television, and you had to come from the theater to be taken seriously in that world.
I love bad movies, whereas going to the theater for me is a painful experience. I think it's really hard to sit and watch actors do something live and have it not go well.
Theater is a really exciting place to return to all the time because it's incredible training for an actor.
Give me an 18-hour day on set or in the theater, and I will be the happiest person alive.
All the world's a stage, and all the men and women merely players.
Words are sacred. They deserve respect. If you get the right ones, in the right order, you can nudge the world a little.
If you want to change something by Tuesday, theater is no good. Journalism is what does that.But, if you want to just alter the chemistry of the moral matrix, then theater has a longer half-life.
If you have a rifle, hanging on the wall in the first act, it should fire in the last act”.
There is no limit to what a person can do that has been inspired by the arts!
Then in the spring something happened to me. Yes, I remember. I fell in love with James Tyrone and was so happy for time.
You never get anywhere until you figure out the difference between passion and compassion.
I always am in a role, lovely – for you, for them – even for myself. Yeah... Even when I’m alone, I am still in a role – and I myself am the most exacting audience I have ever had.
Theater is the crucible where we can create the dynamics of life without suffering the flames of their combustion.
You aren’t allowed back until you’ve learned to willingly suspend disbelief.
All life is theatre, ' he said. 'We are all actors, you and I, in a play which nobody wrote and which nobody will see. We have no audience but ourselves....
When a show ends, for a few days, my body sizzles with leftover energy, like a tree in the wake of a lightning strike.
The first few weeks of school were always surreal, like you landed on an alien planet with strange teachers and unfamiliar classrooms, even though the lockers and cafeteria seemed familiar.
For us, everything was a performance.” A small, private smile catches me off guard and I glance down, hoping he won’t see it. “Everything poetic.
Two objects cannot occupy the same space at the same time. We've never quite made peace with that in the theater---set designer Robin Wagner
You know how thick I am. I don't even eat yoghurt because it's got culture in it.
The Arts are the only acceptable theatre of war for peace.
Judith (sadly): A change has come over my children of late. I have tried to shut my eyes to it, but in vain. At my time of life one must face bitter facts!
If Patti Lupone was born to play Evita then Madonna was born to play Patti Lupone playing Evita.
If formality and courtesy take over the feelings . . . how silly and meaningless these things could become. And despite all this, I still take part in it!
In any case, the goal is the same: to connect.
You can't lock yourself up and make yourself completely safe. You can't. It's not possible.
If I die tomorrow, I'll be alright because I believe that after we're gone, spirit carries on...
Powerpoint presentations are a kind of theater, a kind of augmented stand-up. Too often it's a boring and tedious genre, and audiences are subjected to the bad as well as the good.