Theater Quotes
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I work in theater, so I am always working in front of empty chairs. They represent a future presence. They are never just chairs.
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What interested me was dance - the way that it was constructed with time-space constructions, and that it was abstract. I always thought: 'Why couldn't theater be that way? Or an opera?'
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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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I love movies, and theater, and kayaking, reading, biking, walking - oh, and dancing. I love to dance!
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If I have to, I'll go and direct theater and talk till the cows come home.
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I smile so much at the theater my face hurts when I leave.
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With theater, you have to really be able to listen and to respond to other people on stage. You're all constantly on your toes. And then with film and television, you can get a second take and things like that.
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I go to the movies whenever I get the chance, because the movie theater is like the woods. It's another place that's like a time machine.
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You have to make entertaining movies. But like a good meal, it's nice to have a little food for thought after you walk out of the theater rather than just wiling away a couple of hours.
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The theater of my mind has a seating capacity of just one, and its sold out for all performances.
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I never did improv professionally, but that was certainly in my training as an actor. I like it. Actually, when I did theater, I used to have a partner, and that was the way we used to write a lot of our sketches, through improvisation. So it's something I feel comfortable with.
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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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Theater is about interpretation and what an actor and what a director brings to a piece too. I'm open to it every time I work with a director and a group of actors. I have to be open to that interpretation. I'm not one of those hysterical playwrights that come and say, "This is not what I intended to do." It's one rendition of the piece.
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To me, theater is a spiritual experience. Probably the reason I do theater is it, I guess, comes the closest to feeling like God, or to feeling a spiritual experience that people can have together.
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My sense of responsibility to the audience is to screen things that they would never see in a local theater.
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Those of us who are writers and have to perform to communities that aren't used to coming to book events, I would recommend taking some theater.
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I love to listen to lots of different genres of music, but mostly movie soundtracks and music theater.
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The Jews are an artistic people. It's clear from the music, the actors, the writers. They are just artists. In the early part of the 20th century, when they first came over, they had no money, but they still went to theater. The theater and education were the two biggest things in their lives.
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I've sort of left the theater just for little shoots here and there - little one-off series or small roles in films or whatever.
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I had started doing theater in high school, and while I was doing that, I got my manager.
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I've been doing theaters like the Warner for about a year and we've found the earlier you get the tickets on sale the better idea you get on how many shows we will be doing.
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It's as if these dogs are putting on theater.
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Work in the theater is more fun than fun.
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My favorite part about working in theater is the rehearsal process. I absolutely love the rehearsal process. Working out the characters, figuring the character out, and the relationships between the different characters. I love all of that, which, unfortunately in film, you get very little opportunity to have.
