Best 414 quotes in «theater quotes» category

Actors are as anxious about the state of audiences as aviators are over weather conditions.

Actually, I didn't like Dartmouth very much, but the whole theater scene I really liked.

A lot of the old movie theaters are closing down now, which is really sad. It's still in the back of my mind.

And I started as a journalism major at Ohio State, ended up in theater and I love to read.

All I know is that as an audience member, I am less and less inclined to go to the theater.

And so I've always been fascinated by the technical end of theater, and a lot of my closest friends are not actors, but in the other end of the business.

And I think I'm an adrenaline junkie, and there's nothing that will spike your adrenaline more than sitting in a theater and listen to an audience react to something you've written.

Anybody that goes to the theater, I think we're all misfits, so we ended up on stage or in the audience.

Any actor, any playwright who's worked a life in the theater knows how to do things cheaply and quickly. It's just all by necessity. Invention is everything.

Anyhow, even though I have this home theater, I love going out to the movies. Movies are meant to be experienced together.

Also watching a movie on DVD is different than watching it in the theater.

Architecture is a social act and the material theater of human activity.

Any show that's bringing in a young audience is doing a good thing, because that's the only way that theater will continue to grow. All the other audience members are going to be dead soon!

As a kid, I had a background in theater.

As soon as there are 200 people in a theater watching me, I get really scared.

As filmmakers, we can show where a person's mind goes, as opposed to theater, which is more to sit back and watch it.

Anyone can do theater, even actors. And theater can be done everywhere. Even in a theater.

At this point the theater America is in such a precarious place.

Becoming interested in poetics got me interested in theater. Theater is supposed to be poetry, you know, before it's anything else. It just doesn't fly if it isn't musical.

A theater without beer is just a museum

At a distance from the theatre of action, truth is not always related without embellishment, and sometimes is entirely perverted, from a misconception of the causes which produce the effects that are the subjects of censure.

But you know, I'm not 25 anymore, and I have always said musical theater in particular is a young person's game. It requires energy, mentally and physically, to do it.

Being creative and making money in the theater is very challenging.

Boxing has become America's tragic theater.

Celebrities in general are pretty democratic, just being in the theater. Plus, I'm from Chicago. But Obama's sensible... he's just a reasonable, sensible human being.

Characters are an extreme form in Shakespeare's theater.

Dinner theater is anti-culture.

Don't be late to the theater. The opening scene is a goody.

Eugene O'Neil created an American theater, and Tennessee Williams taught it how to sing.

Coroners' inquests by learned societies can't make Shakespeare a dead man.

Everything in life is theater.

Every person on the streets of New York is a type. The city is one big theater where everyone is on display.

failure in the theater is more public, more brilliant, more unreal than in any other field.

For a long time, I worked in film and theater, but reading started when I was much younger. I was always a reader.

For me, art is always a kind of theater.

Good theater is not what is expected, but what surprises.

I account this world a tedious theater, For I do play a part in 't 'gainst my will.

Everybody has his own theatre, in which he is manager, actor, prompter, playwright, sceneshifter, boxkeeper, doorkeeper, all in one, and audience into the bargain.

Every time I go to the theater, there's something about the atmosphere, seeing something unfold live in front of an audience, that you can't get out of your system.

For me, because I've had classical theater training, when people say, "Oh, my god, the play is amazing!," I'll never get to see it because I'm in it.

Good drama must be drastic.

Growing up, I wasn't an athlete or anything like that. The only place I felt like I belonged was in the theater.

Having grown up in a racist culture where 2 and 2 are not 5, I have found life to be incredibly theatrical and theater to be profoundly lifeless.

I actually cried during 'Titanic.' It was one of the few movies I've seen in the theater multiple times.

I am more alive in the theater than anywhere else, but what I take into the theater I get from the streets.

I attend surprisingly few shows. The type of theater that is popular today just doesn't appeal to me.

I auditioned equally for film and theater. The difference is that theater has seasons, while film, it's always happening.

I began my show business career playing violin in San Francisco at the corner of Market and Taylor. I understand that there is a theater there now.

I come from theater, and doing period stuff is so whimsical and imaginative and so outside any frame of reference than I have ever had so I prefer that just in terms of fun factor.

I am pure performance, and Robert Wilson is pure theater.