Best 414 quotes in «theater quotes» category

Silence has a myriad of meanings. In the theater, silence is an absence of words, but never an absence of meaning.

Singing in Yiddish was a great thrill for me and came about through Joe Papp, the founder of The Public Theater.

Surely no other American institution is so bound around and tightened up by rules, strictures, adages, and superstitions as the Broadway theatre.

Thank God for theater and film and television and my very, very, very lucky life.

That's one of my real goals is to keep theater in my life.

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.

Sometimes I have a great day of filming and sometimes the theater strikes me better. It just depends.

Sondheim is the Shakespeare of the musical theater world.

Surely, you go to the theater because you want to have a great evening in the theater.

Thank God for the theater.

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.

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.

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

Theatrical work means too much work or none.

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.

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

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

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

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

The projectors in the theater practically shut down with boredom.

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

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