Best 414 quotes in «theater quotes» category

the real stakes in the theater are high - they are life stakes. That's what I love about it. You gamble with your life, and that's a gamble worth taking.

There are television critics, movie critics, and theater critics too who I like and who I follow and I get genuinely bummed when they don't like something that I've written because I usually agree with them.

There is no more "front" and "rear" where Fobbit-types would go to hide out in safer locations. In Iraq and Afghanistan, you engaged in a theater of operations that's 360 degrees at all times.

There have been screenwriters who I'm sure would gladly kill me, because I've been very fast and loose with their work, because I felt like it wasn't up to my high standards. I would push and pull it on set, and make changes all the time. But then when you're working with an original screenplay, my theater instincts kick in, and I suddenly become very keeper-of-the-words.

There is no better indication of what the people of any period are like than the plays they go to see.

There was no professional theater in Cork, but still I did a lot of performing.

There's only one movie theater in the entire city of Detroit. The entire city has one open movie theater, and it is in the - it is in the General Motors headquarters complex.

The theater is the thing I love doing most.

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

The theater itself is not revolutionary: it is a rehearsal for the revolution.

The theater's been very good to me and I became Julie Halston through the theater.

The theater is so endlessly fascinating because it's so accidental. It's so much like life.

The theater is where I belonged; I simply wanted to be an actress my whole life.

The theatre has always been to me a place where beautiful lies are told, and playwrighting the orchestration of platitudes around a central flaw in logic or a ridiculous idea. Acting — the disguise and impersonation — is an art of deception.

The theater community at large, I have to say, has just been so warm and so welcoming, and that's not something I'm as used to.

The theater is a tough place. It's not cushioned the way it is in film and television.

The theater is too deep for me. I prefer bicycling.

The theatre is supremely fitted to say: 'Behold! These things are.' Yet most dramatists employ it to say: 'This moral truth can be learned from beholding this action.'

The terrible thing about acting in the theater is that you have to do it at night.

The theater is who I am - it's where I feel the most inspired, the most at home, the most useful.

The theater needs continual reminders that there is nothing more debasing than the work of those who do well what is not worth doing at all.

The tragedy of "Hamlet" is critically considered to be the masterpiece of dramatic poetry; and the tragedy of "Hamlet" is also, according to the testimony of every sort of manager, the play of all others which can invariably be depended on to fill a theater.

The trick about the theater is at the end of the day you cannot take any of it personally.

The world is a strange place for a playhouse to stand within it.

The very first things that I did, even in theater, were bad guys. They are meaty roles for the most part. With the bad guy you have more freedom to experiment and go further out than with a good guy.

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

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.

They were totally supportive, always saw everything I did. One of the thrills of my life was when they went to the theater to see something that I wasn't in. It opened doors for them that otherwise would have been totally closed.

Through theater and acting school, I found a way to articulate myself.

We all have an escape. Mine was theater.

Up until I started on YouTube, my first love was musical theater.

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.

We all need to go to good theater; that is what I believe will save it.

What I love about the theater is the work ethic. I grew up with it.

We went to see all the shows. American musical theater and jazz were very big.

We thought it would be great to see if you could put pop music back into musical theater.

We were tremendously encouraged by the testing of Analyze That. Audiences loved it. They were telling us that they liked it as much as the original. We recorded the laughs in the theater.

What I don't have in theater is editing.

What I like about theater is its team work. Theater is also all-time creativity.

Whoever becomes the head of the National Theater finds himself in a position like that of Nelson's Column - pigeons dump on you because you're there.

Whenever I do theaters, I don't like 'em. I don't think they're right for stand-up.

When I came to know theater, drama became valuable to me.

When I was doing ensemble theater and comedy work, I felt I had some talents. But when I started doing my shows in Berkeley and found that I could be funny on my own, I was shocked.

When the theater gates open, a mob pours inside, and it is the poet's task to turn it into an audience.

When you are performing in theater, you feel so connected to your audience. Its exhilarating!

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.

When you think about it, what other playwrights are there besides O'Neill, Tennessee and me?

When I was 12, I was in Oliver! at a theater in Glasgow.

When I was a teenager, I began to settle into school because I'd discovered the extracurricular activities that interested me: music and theater.

When you end a successful sitcom, the most sensible thing to do is go back to the theater.