Best 414 quotes in «theater quotes» category

Now in my theater training I showed no aptitude at all.

Now, when I started my theater, the modus operandi was having the actors stare right into the audience.

One does not go to the theater to escape from himself, but to reestablish contact with the mystery that we all are.

One reason you are stricken when your parents die is that the audience you've been aiming at all your life - shocking it, pleasing it - has suddenly left the theater.

Obviously I love working in film and television, but I started in theater and I'd love to be on Broadway.

People who are interested in the arts and theater are such a minority.

Performing in a live theater is absolutely unbeatable. It is something I have done my entire life and have a gift, it seems, for sharing thoughts live.

Picture-taking is an ensemble art-like theater.

Playing in front of an audience was just such a turn-on for me, and you have 200 people in the audience and it's like doing live theater. And filming something that goes to millions of people several weeks later, it's an interesting dynamic.

Playwriting, like begging in India, is an honorable but humbling profession.

Readers transform a library from a mausoleum into many theaters.

Repertory theater is all about being part of the whole, one of the many colors in this vast palette.

Oh, I was completely hooked on movies and plays and theater from the time I was a day old; I was very, very early on in love with movies and I loved plays.

One's roused by this, another finds that fit: Each loves the play for what he brings to it.

Originally, theater was my life. It was what I assumed I'd spend my working life doing - if I was lucky. Then along came movies.

Our theaters, our museums, our culture. We have everything New York has without the hassles.

Parsi theater was known for melodrama.

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

Sondheim is the Shakespeare of the musical theater world.

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

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

Thank God for the theater.

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.

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

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.

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

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

The atmosphere of the theater is my oxygen.

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.

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

"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.