Theater Quotes
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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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The theater is so big and dark and private. Nobody knows that I am there. I am relaxed. I forget completely I am an actress. I laugh, I applaud, I cry.
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There was laughter in the back of the theater, leading to the belief that someone was telling jokes back there.
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The trick is to have my own particular taste and feel for the theater to audiences who have been used to one particular style and taste for nearly 40 years.
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I think as an actor you're lucky to have any film take on a life of its own long after it's left the theater.
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My parents set a fantastic example for me in that their passion came from theater.
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I think a lot of actors, especially actors with a theater background, have a musical ear. A lot of actors just want to be musicians anyway, and a lot of musicians want to be actors.
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There's something about the theater which makes my fingertips tingle.
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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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In a movie we try to deceive. In theaters, as they say, the deceived are the wisest.
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By the time I was 10, I was doing plays for Phoenix theater. My first lead role was as the Stinky Cheese Man. I got a taste of the limelight, and I just couldn't stop. It was a way for me to be the artistic, geeky kid that I was, and not get beat up.
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In film, there are two ways of including human beings. One is depicting human beings. Another is to create a film form which, in itself, has all the qualities of being human: tenderness, observation, fear, relaxation, the sense of stepping into the world and pulling back, expansion, contraction, changing, softening, tenderness of heart. The first is a form of theater and the latter is a form of poetry.
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I do come from theater. I didn't spend a lot of time there 'cause once I started in television, I just kind of stayed there.
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It had a long and varied history, mostly involving crime, prostitution and the theater.
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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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A country that has few museums is both materially poor and spiritually poor...Museums, like theaters and libraries, are a means to freedom.
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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 believe in things that move people, if the audience isn't deeply caught up and moved to either laughter or tears then I don't think it is theater.
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I never leave a piece of theater that I love and say, 'That was a good point; They made a good point.' I leave, and I feel something.
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Theater is the most enriching and thrilling thing to do as an actor.
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Theater is such a small community that every brilliant piece of theater raises us all up.
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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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When you're sitting in the theater watching your own work be performed, you get to see people's reactions immediately. Unlike with a book, you don't have to wait for responses. That's very satisfying. Unless it's a joke that falls flat.
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I always thought I would be a marine biologist because I love the sea - but considering the fact that I've always loved acting and the theater, I don't think I ever gave anything else much of a chance.
