Theater Quotes
I have been in the business long enough to know what an intense amount of work it takes to operate a theater company.
Theater people are always pining and agonizing because they're afraid that they'll be forgotten. And in America they're quite right. They will be.
The theater is like a faithful wife. The film is the great adventure - the costly, exacting mistress.
Juilliard definitely emphasizes the theater. They don't train - at all really - for film acting. It's mostly process-oriented, pretty much for the stage.
I like the theater enormously, but I truly love films - the whole bizarre, boring process that it can be.
No theater could sanely flourish until there was an umbilical connection between what was happening on the stage and what was happening in the world.
I would not change very much about the American theater. I marvel and rejoice in the way the country's regional theaters have formed a network that has become, in essence, our National Theater.
When you are on stage in front of an audience, you want to engage the entire crowd. If a thousand people are in the theater, you need to dance a thousand different ways, not one-thousandth of a way.
To be in theater you have to be a kind of psychologist, for you're always trying to understand character and motives.
I did some theater as a kid for fun. But it was really by chance that I landed into acting.
I'd forgotten how arrogant people are in the theater, I'm agreeing to starve for a year and he seems to think I should be pleased to have the part.
When you go to the movie theater and the opening of this movie and you see the kids just cracking up with a character you are giving your voice to, you get goose bumps. It's so beautiful.
I don't feel comfortable doing movies. It's not what I trained to do. I trained to be a theater actress. You put me on a stage in front of 2,000 people, I know what to do.
In a theater, the part is mine and I can control it as I want to. In the movies, I don't have direct contact, and I am fighting technical machinery
The award is important in order to bring people to the movie theater. That's the only principle meaning of any award.
I like the theater, dining and chasing women. Let me put it this way: I am a single, straight billionaire in Manhattan. It's like a wet dream.
What people really want in the theater is fantasy involvement and not reality involvement.
No more duty can be urged upon those who are entering the great theater of life than simple loyalty to their best convictions.
As an actor in the theater you're taught that you never play a bad guy. You have to love who you are. You can't say, "Oh, I'm a bad guy." How do you play that?
people see so many movies that when they finally see one not so bad as the others, they think it's great. an Academy Award means that you don't stink quite as much as your cousin.
I am not interested in living in a city where there isn't a production by Samuel Beckett running.
Theater is like boxing - having the audience ringside. It's instant gratification. Or horrification.
Anybody that goes to the theater, I think we're all misfits, so we ended up on stage or in the audience.
Charity in the theater begins and ends with those who have a play opening within a week of one's own.
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.
I love being funny! I started in the theater when I was 9 and, believe it or not, always played the funny part!
I was really short in high school. I was stuck on the bench in the baseball team, so I just thought I'd try out theater, and that was the last time I did sports.
Basically, my socialization as a child didn't come from any schooling; it came from being in theater and meeting people online.
I was raised in the theater and I started acting when I was nine. To me, the idea of being an actor was about playing different characters and being a chameleon. That's why I was in the theater.
My main concern is theater, and theater does not reflect or mirror society. It has been stingy and selfish, and it has to do better.
The show can go on without me, and probably will, but I want to come back to act in Chicago. My wife and I just bought a condo downtown, and I want to do theater.
The trick about the theater is at the end of the day you cannot take any of it personally.
Young people have got to start their own theaters, really. All good theater is a kind of mom-and-pop operation. Start your own theater.
The musical is the one area of the theater that can give you the biggest buzz of all.
Reality really is theater. There's no other way to describe it. It's all so nonsensical, ridiculous and chaotic.
We are in the black theater of nonexistence. In an eye blink the curtain is up, the stage ablaze, for the vast drama of ourselves.
I used to have to wear a gas mask to school when I was a kid because of the dust. I would tell people that the first light I saw was in a movie theater, because the sun was just a little glow.
In the theater there is often a tension, almost a contradiction, between the way real people would think and behave, and a kind of imposed dramaticness.
I don't believe in lowest common denominators. Our focus has been on delivering value. We're rarely going to be the cheapest theater in a market. We strive to be the best.
I think I'll always be a better playwright than a pundit, but I believe that writers should be public intellectuals and that theater, even more than film, is a place of public debate.
