Best 414 quotes in «theater quotes» category

The adrenaline of a live performance is unlike anything in film or theater. I can see why it's so addictive.

Theater is all about foyers and conversation and digesting what you've seen.

Theater is a verb before it is a noun, an act before it is a place.

Theater is the most enriching and thrilling thing to do as an actor.

Theater actors like to change character roles. They don't like to always do the same thing.

Theater dressing rooms are my home away from home - my second home, really.

Theater publicly reveals the human condition through appealing to both intellect and emotion. Architecture, whether lowly or exalted, can do the same.

Theaters are great. They're designed to sound good, not for basketball.

Theater is dangerously open to repetition. Its exciting when you hit on a new way.

Theater is perhaps one of the few places left where we are in a dialogue right now. Everything has become so partisan, and the rhetoric has become so heated, that conversation is almost impossible.

Theater opened up a whole new world for me. It was a freedom I'd never known before.

Theater to me is acting but it's more real on film.

Theater is far superior to film in poetry, in abstract poetry.

Theater is so ephemeral, and I love that.

Theater acting is an operation with a scalpel, movie acting is an operation with a laser

Theater in Chicago will always be my first love.

Theater is a way to keep challenging myself.

Theater really gets damaged when there is a paucity of good criticism around.

The atmosphere of the theater is my oxygen.

the audience is the controlling factor in the actor's life. It is practically infallible, since there is no appeal from its verdict. It is a little like a supreme court composed of irresponsible minors.

Theatrical work means too much work or none.

The drama nerd comes out in me when I'm in a theater.

"The Fever" is a one-person play. I decided I would perform it myself, and I decided I would not perform it in theaters, because the character in the play says certain things that I meant.

The great actors we had came from the actor-manager theaters. Not only did they create a team, they were the generals working with the soldiers.

The frivolity with which all theatrical activity is conducted has one consoling feature-there are no rules of behavior that apply regularly to any part of the theatre.

The great actors are the luminous ones. They are the great conductors of the stage.

The Kessler Theater is one such gem, an Art Deco beauty … for a slice of real life, there’s always the Kessler.

The greatest sound in the theater is silence.

The great thing about theater is that you have so much time to prepare, and to fail, before presenting it to the public. In film, the high-wire act seems to be that much farther up, and the net seems to be less there.

The knights of the theater represented to me not only the pinnacle of the profession but the esteem in which the profession was held. To find myself, to my astonishment, in that company is the grandest thing that has professionally happened to me.

The inclination to digress is human. But the dramatist must avoid it even more strenuously than the saint must avoid sin, for while sin may be venial, digression is mortal.

The mainstream is generally garbage. Look at the heavily subsidized theaters.

The musical theater is a glorious and distinctly American innovation in the history of theater.

The movies are not my first priority - the theater is.

The musical is the one area of the theater that can give you the biggest buzz of all.

The perfection in theater is that it's over the second it's done

The novel is more of a whisper, whereas the stage is a shout.

The public voice in the theater today is crude and raucous, and, all too often, weak-minded.

The projectors in the theater practically shut down with boredom.

The primary function of a theatre is not to please itself, or even to please its audience. It is to serve talent.

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'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.

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 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 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.

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

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

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

The theater is the thing I love doing most.