Best 414 quotes in «theater quotes» category

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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 theater and film and television and my very, very, very lucky life.

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.

Theatrical work means too much work or none.

Readers transform a library from a mausoleum into many theaters.

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 the theater.

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.

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.

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

The greatest sound in the theater is silence.

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 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 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 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 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 movies are not my first priority - the theater is.