Best 414 quotes in «theater quotes» category

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

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

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 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 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.

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

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

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

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 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.

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

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

The theater is the thing I love doing most.

The theater community at large, I have to say, has just been so warm and so welcoming, and that's not something I'm as used to.

The theater is a tough place. It's not cushioned the way it is in film and television.

The theater is too deep for me. I prefer bicycling.

The theatre is supremely fitted to say: 'Behold! These things are.' Yet most dramatists employ it to say: 'This moral truth can be learned from beholding this action.'

The terrible thing about acting in the theater is that you have to do it at night.

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

The theater's been very good to me and I became Julie Halston through the theater.

The theater is so endlessly fascinating because it's so accidental. It's so much like life.

The theater is where I belonged; I simply wanted to be an actress my whole life.

The theatre has always been to me a place where beautiful lies are told, and playwrighting the orchestration of platitudes around a central flaw in logic or a ridiculous idea. Acting — the disguise and impersonation — is an art of deception.

The theater is who I am - it's where I feel the most inspired, the most at home, the most useful.

The theater needs continual reminders that there is nothing more debasing than the work of those who do well what is not worth doing at all.

The trick about the theater is at the end of the day you cannot take any of it personally.

The tragedy of "Hamlet" is critically considered to be the masterpiece of dramatic poetry; and the tragedy of "Hamlet" is also, according to the testimony of every sort of manager, the play of all others which can invariably be depended on to fill a theater.

They would have been very let down if they had to leave the theater and he had missed. He would feel badly. Everyone would feel badly. But he never let them down.

The very first things that I did, even in theater, were bad guys. They are meaty roles for the most part. With the bad guy you have more freedom to experiment and go further out than with a good guy.

The world is a strange place for a playhouse to stand within it.

They were totally supportive, always saw everything I did. One of the thrills of my life was when they went to the theater to see something that I wasn't in. It opened doors for them that otherwise would have been totally closed.

This is the theater. And this is the best place for the imagination.

Through theater and acting school, I found a way to articulate myself.

We all have an escape. Mine was theater.

Up until I started on YouTube, my first love was musical theater.