Best 414 quotes in «theater quotes» category

And so I've always been fascinated by the technical end of theater, and a lot of my closest friends are not actors, but in the other end of the business.

Any actor, any playwright who's worked a life in the theater knows how to do things cheaply and quickly. It's just all by necessity. Invention is everything.

Anybody that goes to the theater, I think we're all misfits, so we ended up on stage or in the audience.

Anyhow, even though I have this home theater, I love going out to the movies. Movies are meant to be experienced together.

Anyone can do theater, even actors. And theater can be done everywhere. Even in a theater.

Any show that's bringing in a young audience is doing a good thing, because that's the only way that theater will continue to grow. All the other audience members are going to be dead soon!

Architecture is a social act and the material theater of human activity.

As soon as there are 200 people in a theater watching me, I get really scared.

As a kid, I had a background in theater.

As filmmakers, we can show where a person's mind goes, as opposed to theater, which is more to sit back and watch it.

A theater without beer is just a museum

At a distance from the theatre of action, truth is not always related without embellishment, and sometimes is entirely perverted, from a misconception of the causes which produce the effects that are the subjects of censure.

At this point the theater America is in such a precarious place.

Becoming interested in poetics got me interested in theater. Theater is supposed to be poetry, you know, before it's anything else. It just doesn't fly if it isn't musical.

Being creative and making money in the theater is very challenging.

Boxing has become America's tragic theater.

Don't be late to the theater. The opening scene is a goody.

But you know, I'm not 25 anymore, and I have always said musical theater in particular is a young person's game. It requires energy, mentally and physically, to do it.

Dinner theater is anti-culture.

Celebrities in general are pretty democratic, just being in the theater. Plus, I'm from Chicago. But Obama's sensible... he's just a reasonable, sensible human being.

Characters are an extreme form in Shakespeare's theater.

Coroners' inquests by learned societies can't make Shakespeare a dead man.

Everybody has his own theatre, in which he is manager, actor, prompter, playwright, sceneshifter, boxkeeper, doorkeeper, all in one, and audience into the bargain.

Eugene O'Neil created an American theater, and Tennessee Williams taught it how to sing.

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

For me, art is always a kind of theater.

Every time I go to the theater, there's something about the atmosphere, seeing something unfold live in front of an audience, that you can't get out of your system.

For a long time, I worked in film and theater, but reading started when I was much younger. I was always a reader.

For me, because I've had classical theater training, when people say, "Oh, my god, the play is amazing!," I'll never get to see it because I'm in it.

Everything in life is theater.

failure in the theater is more public, more brilliant, more unreal than in any other field.

Good theater is not what is expected, but what surprises.

Good drama must be drastic.

Having grown up in a racist culture where 2 and 2 are not 5, I have found life to be incredibly theatrical and theater to be profoundly lifeless.

Growing up, I wasn't an athlete or anything like that. The only place I felt like I belonged was in the theater.

I actually cried during 'Titanic.' It was one of the few movies I've seen in the theater multiple times.

I account this world a tedious theater, For I do play a part in 't 'gainst my will.

I am essential to the theater.

I am pure performance, and Robert Wilson is pure theater.

I am more alive in the theater than anywhere else, but what I take into the theater I get from the streets.

I auditioned equally for film and theater. The difference is that theater has seasons, while film, it's always happening.

I attend surprisingly few shows. The type of theater that is popular today just doesn't appeal to me.

I began my show business career playing violin in San Francisco at the corner of Market and Taylor. I understand that there is a theater there now.

I come from a traditional theater background.

I come from theater, and doing period stuff is so whimsical and imaginative and so outside any frame of reference than I have ever had so I prefer that just in terms of fun factor.

I come from the theater, where I got into acting because I love transforming. I love nothing more than to be unrecognizable.

I converted a family-owned strip club into an improvisational acting theater.

I do come from a theater background, where the playwright is optimal and king and you have to serve the playwright. So I am, of course, a huge fan of scripted everything.

I did a lot of theater as a kid because I had a bunch of friends who did it.

I didn't go into the theater to be a producer, I went into the theater to be a director.