Theater Quotes
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Theater and music are both collaborative media, and I think they're best when they combine different people's visions and aesthetics.
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If you're in a theater, people are texting, all around you. You have the little glowing screens everywhere. Think of how annoying that can be.
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I used to stand outside the theater knowing the truant officer was looking for me. I would stand there 'til someone came along and then ask them to buy my ticket.
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We get hit with the 'jukebox musical' label, but book authors Marshall Brickman and Rick Elice and director Des McAnuff accomplished a 50-50 split between music and drama, ... The music is very important, but the history of the group makes it a great piece of theater.
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I'm on Twitter every single week. It's sort of like being a playwright standing in the back of the theater.
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Sheer flattery got me into the theater. Flattery always works with me, particularly the flattery of women.
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In the theater, I've found that, in general, reaction and laughter come easier at an evening performance, when the audience is more inclined to forget its troubles. Matinee customers must enter the theatre in a more matter-of-fact frame of mind, hanging on tightly before they let themselves go.
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I had pinned all my hopes on the theater.
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I was the classic liberal, left-wing, 'Theater is going to change the world' kind of person. You know, very, very boring.
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I would never ever condone any violence of any kind. But in the theater of fiction, blood is delightful.
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On the whole, British actors star in theater, and I think there's something quite grounding about that.
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I did a lot of theater growing up, and in college I was in the musical 'Chicago.'
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The theater commitment is hard, especially in conjunction with a television commitment. That's a big, long commitment.
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I would love to work on Broadway, but I don't know that it would manifest itself in musical theater.... I have terrible stage fright that I'd have to get over.
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I can’t imagine ever giving up theater; it’s been a part of who I am since I was eight years old.
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I love the theater. I love being on stage; I love the live audience. I also love dressing up and all of the make – believe.
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It had a long and varied history, mostly involving crime, prostitution and the theater.
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I hope I'm always lucky enough to be able to work in theater, TV, and big films and small films. I think there's advantages and disadvantages to all of them. The fact that this was a small film without much money and without much time made it rich in energy and momentum and drive when we were actually making it 'cause that's all you've got. You've just got the story and the people.
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The mistake that men make is that they do not believe in theater. Otherwise, they would know that every man is allowed to play thecelestial tragedies and to become god. All he has to do is harden his heart.
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I feel like I prefer movies, but, at the same time, theater is so exciting when you're doing it. It's a harder job doing theater.
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I work in between the cracks, where the voice starts dancing, where the body starts singing, where theater becomes cinema.
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The wonderful thing about Food for Thought is that it lets you keep your hand in theater and be in front of a live audience without a commitment of six months, or even three months.
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You make the money in movies and TV so you can do theater. I do a play a year... somewhere.
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For my entire career, I wanted to be a director. When I was in the theater, it was very difficult to get directing jobs, and I fell into the acting by default. I got in the habit of accepting whatever came my way. Not things that I disagreed with, though. It's not like I had aspirations - well, I did have aspirations to play Hamlet, which I ended up doing.
