Theater Quotes
A theater is such a revealing form of art, such a transparent and good actors, they're such powerful individuals. I always kind of dreamt that one day I will open my mouth on stage.
In theater and dance, I was trying to win someone's approval, trying to get in, trying to be good. It felt out of my control, whereas music suddenly felt like this free expression. It was fun.
Idealistic producing is safe. Sensibly projected in the theater, the fine thing always does pay and always will.
Look, it's a mainstream animated movie, and how often are those considered thought provoking? It's meant to be a great time at the theater, but it's also designed to work on more than one level
Tennis is more than just a sport. It's an art, like the ballet. Or like a performance in the theater.
I ended up training only for four years before I was accepted into American Ballet Theater in New York City.
If an American audience is given a serious musical theater piece that is well produced, dramatically gripping and wonderfully acted, they'll respond to it.
As a boy, I'd always had an interest in theater. But the idea at my school was that drama and music were to round out the man. It wasn't what one did for a living. I got over that.
As a kid, before I got into music, I did all the drama classes, went to theater camp in the summers, so it wasn't totally a foreign world.
Socrates didn't care to visit the theater, as a rule, except when the plays of Euripides (which some think, he himself had helped to compose), were performed.
I love doing theater so much - being in front of an audience and seeing how a character grows and develops with every performance.
I was a ballet dancer and that kind of bled into musical theater. I was constantly in rehearsal for one thing or another.
They say that theater is the actor's medium, television is the writer's medium and film is the director's medium, and it's really true.
I often teach a graduate theater seminar on Greek tragedy in performance. I usually begin by saying that no matter what technological advances occur, the wisdom of these plays will never be obsolete.
J.L. Moreno was a pioneer of twentieth-century theater and psychotherapy. A remarkable work, Impromptu Man should be required reading for therapists and dramatists alike.
If I had to pick one form of acting, it would be live theater. That's where I started; that's where I became a man, I think I'm still finishing up that job.
Tim Robbins had real confidence in college. He literally stole actors from the theater department at UCLA to be in his plays. The department heads got so mad at him
When I was living on the street I would be standing out in front of Grauman's Chinese Theater, leaning against my car and signing autographs and nobody had any idea that I was living in it.
A young ballplayer looks on his first spring training trip as a stage struck young woman regards the theater.
They would have been very let down if they had to leave the theater and he had missed. He would feel badly. Everyone would feel badly. But he never let them down.
For a long time, my uniform consisted of a trench coat, wide flared jeans, and little bottines - I copied a pair that my mother had in this theater place. I had, like, 10 pairs of the same shoes.
Dance, vaudeville, drama, movies - as a child I loved everything that went on in a theater.
I was always the only black in the movie theater, the only black in class, the only black in the library, the only black in the discotheque. I always felt observed and judged.
When you open a book it's like going to the theater first you see the curtain then it is pulled aside and the show begins.
I act the way I talk. It probably comes from starting out in Second City, improvisational theater. I can go from take to take. I'll ask for another take.
In the theater, characters have to cut the umbilical cord from the writer and talk in their own voices
I meet kids now who become novelists, poets, write for the theater and movies, who were simply inspired by what they saw during the Spoleto Festival.
I had no desire to be in the movies. All my training had been in the theater, thank God.
And I started as a journalism major at Ohio State, ended up in theater and I love to read.
The theater is a communal event, like church. The playwright constructs a mass to be performed for a lot of people. She writes a prayer, which is really just the longings of one heart.
Theater actors like to change character roles. They don't like to always do the same thing.
Theater is a dance of a different kind, a dance of rawness and characters stripped down.
because the theater lost a Barrymore every time a Southerner decided not to go on the stage, just about anything that comes out of a Southern mouth is bound to be a ringing line.
In college, I stopped doing pre-med and went into theater, and then I moved to San Francisco and lived there for five years.
When your father directed your mother in 'Orpheus Descending,' the kid's going to be a theater nerd.
We do a lot of shows for young people who have probably never been to the theater before and they are learning about the Holocaust, which unhappily, many of them do not know about.
I love variety. I love theater. I also love radio. I love language. But, the older you get, you need to earn money. You need to heighten your profile.
Television has some lovely aspects to it - and some ghastly aspects - but the theater itself was a wonderful invention.