Theater Quotes
I attend surprisingly few shows. The type of theater that is popular today just doesn't appeal to me.
I had studied theater for three years in London when someone suggested me for the role.
One reason you are stricken when your parents die is that the audience you've been aiming at all your life - shocking it, pleasing it - has suddenly left the theater.
Corporate Hollywood thinks I'm a geek to go back and do theater. They don't understand why I don't want to be a movie star, why I'm not pursuing Mel Gibson's roles.
failure in the theater is more public, more brilliant, more unreal than in any other field.
All of the generations go to what is chic for them, and theater seems to be an older generation's art form.
I'm very aware that when one is acting in the theater, you do become kind of animal about it. And you're reliant on instincts rather than tact a lot of the time.
For me, there is nothing more valuable than how people feel in a movie theater about a movie.
It is Ireland's sacred duty to send over, every few years, a playwright to save the English theater from inarticulate glumness.
Corporations are social organizations, the theater in which men and women realize or fail to realize purposeful and productive lives.
I think anybody who has been in the theater, prefers it. Television is a... factory. You turn out things on a revolving assembly line. You don't have time to perfect anything in television.
I am a theater girl, and a lot of theater girls dress however pleases them. I wear whatever looks good on me. I wear what I wear because I have been shopping at thrift stores since I was five.
As soon as people enter a theater they must become moron consumers who must be fed information.
I seemed to belong to three countries: I had an apartment in Paris, a house in Hollywood, and when I married British theater director Peter Hall, I moved to London.
In theater, the wellspring of the character comes from the doing of it, like a trial by fire, but in front of an audience.
We should have done more damage to the Iraqi forces before they withdrew from the Kuwaiti theater.
Don't forget the prices are so high in theater; it isn't really where a young person can go on a date and buy two tickets and take someone out anymore.
I used to buy into a former Supreme Court justice's argument that you can't scream fire in a crowded theater. Well, I think you can.
The theater is the only branch of art much cared for by people of wealth; like canasta, it does away with the brother of talk after dinner.
If I had a gun to my head and I had to choose between theater and film I'd choose theater.
I want to make movies that people talk about when they leave the theater, that aren't clear-cut, but effective and fulfilling in some sense.
I have criticisms of Ronald Reagan, but he lives in another universe from the kind of political theater that is represented by people, like Sarah Palin, who aren't really public servants.
I had never done any theater in high school, which actually worked to my benefit. I didn't develop any bad habits.
In the theater, everything is ephemeral. Everything is almost weightless and without a very clear definition of how you made it.
As I told you, from the time I was fifteen, I thought the theater was too much involved with actors trying to make the audience love them, being over emotional.
When I was about seven, I started touring the globe as part of New York's La MaMa theater company - without my parents!
When I was growing up in the theater there were all these amazing girls telling me about the guy who broke their heart. And I was always wishing that it was me.
You come in off the street, through the doors of the theater. You sit down. The lights go down and the curtain goes up. And you're in another world
In the theater, you go from point A to point Z, building your performance as the evening progresses. You have to relinquish that control on a film.
Sir Larry could be very strict and a disciplinarian, too. He had many faces; he wore many hats. But, ultimately, he loved the theater and he loved actors.
That's when you know a horror film delivers - when you're walking out of the theater going 'Oh my God!' You can't get the images out of your mind.
I see only defects because I'm not following the scene as it were. I'm not following the other person. It's like the best thing to clarify this is the theater.
It’s one of the most enjoyable experiences. To me, it’s theater. Immediate reaction, the second it’s done. I get to be in my living room with you, trolling my own show.
I'm always struck by the kids who turn up in New York and LA, and places in between. Chicago. Wanting to do theater, wanting to do independent film. Wanting to break into television or radio.
When the theater gates open, a mob pours inside, and it is the poet's task to turn it into an audience.
I would just like to mention Robert Houdin who in the eighteenth century invented the vanishing birdcage trick and the theater matinee - may he rot and perish. Good afternoon.
I always loved acting and improv and sketch comedy and theater, which I did at a local youth theater.
Theater is my temple and my religion and my act of faith. Strangers sit in a room together and believe together.