Best 414 quotes in «theater quotes» category

Tutto ciò che di grande e bello c’è al mondo, gratta gratta, non è mai nato da un discorso razionale. Mai.

Two objects cannot occupy the same space at the same time. We've never quite made peace with that in the theater---set designer Robin Wagner

(Über Bertolt Brecht) aber letztlich war er doch kein Lehrer und kein Volkserzieher. Er war ein leidenschaftlicher Verführer. Möglichst alle wollte er verführen: Frauen und Männer, Junge und Alte, Künstler und Politiker. Und nirgends schienen ihm die Menschen so verführbar wie im Zuschauerraum des Theaters.

When a show ends, for a few days, my body sizzles with leftover energy, like a tree in the wake of a lightning strike.

We are all actors playing different roles in different phases of life. But we must try to play each role to perfection!

When most dullards hear the words 'the theater,' they envision a twelve-screen multiplex where disaster porn entertains the culturally witless for 90 minutes at a time. Pfaugh. The word 'theater' has grandeur. Power. Back to its ancient Grecian origins, it means 'the seeing place.' A stage upon which actors and actresses use fiction to show us truths.

When teachers participate in a literary experience with a professionally presented children's play, they are offering their students a text quite different from anything that they will experience within their classrooms. Within this literary experience, teachers join as equals with their students, and each, as audience members within the darkened space of the performance, create their own poems to hold within themselves or share with others.

When you're in a show, all through rehearsals Tech Week hovers out there like a magical holy grail. In reality, Tech Week is always a train wreck of missed cues, forgotten lines, malfunctioning set pieces and short tempers.

William looked up... through his tears... past the catwalk and lights... past the sky... through the dark and clouds and stars and into the void where he once knew God existed, then turned himself outside-in, alone, and asked, 'Why?

With his dream of a theater program for young people, Larry Wentzler had inadvertently done an amazing thing for all these squirrels. They had a place where they belonged, and, even if it was because he didn't want to deal with their being different, he didn't treat them any differently. Which I think is a pretty successful implementation of Christianity.

You aren’t allowed back until you’ve learned to willingly suspend disbelief.

You are the antidote to any received behaviour. Take a walk when you can. Be alone when you can. Talk to people you care about when you can. We try our best, and somehow it's not enough. We are broken people, the theater shows this. Yet we don't let being inadequate keep us from giving our very best every time. If professionalism has taken the practice of performing to a place where broken human behavior is not acceptable, then it is the medium that is broken, and not the other way around. For at our essence, at our core, we are not professionals. We are amateurs. We are myth, history and advertising, but, still, we exist; we are real, and we are simply beginners. It's how we thrive. We begin and therefore perpetually remain connected to the spark. We ask questions, we thirst, and we learn. And the dissenters complete us, causing us to be better.

You can't believe people when they look you in the eyes. You gotta' look behind them. See what they're standing in front of. What they're hiding. Everyone's hiding, Wes. Everybody. Nobody look like what they are.

You know how thick I am. I don't even eat yoghurt because it's got culture in it.

You never get anywhere until you figure out the difference between passion and compassion.

When I enter the theater and there is a show onstage, it makes me feel safe in the knowledge that the world keeps turning. It also feels like I have died and I am attending my own funeral, so it’s good and bad.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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!

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

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

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

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

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.

A theater without beer is just a museum

As a kid, I had a background in 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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

Dinner theater is anti-culture.

Boxing has become America's tragic theater.

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.

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

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