Theater Quotes
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I would like, if I can, to broaden the possibilities of the musical theater. I think there's a better 'Oklahoma!' someplace, a better 'West Side Story.' And I'd like to be mixed up in it.
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I had a grandmother who would always encourage me to learn about theater and film.
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I happen to love working in cinema, but the theater is always there... you know, and I would never shut the door on it. Even though it's been quite a bit of time since I've done a play, last one was in New York.
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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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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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You make the money in movies and TV so you can do theater. I do a play a year... somewhere.
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I trained in theater. I loved Los Angeles, but I've found New York to be successful for me.
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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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Film is new for me so I'm so fascinated by it and love it, but I would pass out if I could never do theater again. I'd be physically ill!
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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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The theater of my mind has a seating capacity of just one, and its sold out for all performances.
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I always wanted to be an actor. It sort of prevented that whole - I never had any of that kind of angsty period old and doing musicals at camp and community theater and plays at school; it was just always what I most enjoyed and always what I intended to pursue.
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I want to do primarily film and theater; I always want to do a play because it feeds my soul. It's like an exercise on stage.
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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 regard the theater as a woman I loved dearly who treated me like dirt.
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The theater, when it is potent enough to deserve its ancestry, is always dangerous; that is why it is instinctively feared by people who do not want change, but only preservation of the status quo.
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People whose understanding and taste in literature, painting, and music are beyond question are, for the most part, ignorant of what is good or bad art in the theater.
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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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The only reality of the theater exists in the mind of the audience.
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The theater should be free to the people just as the Public Library is free, just as the museum is free. ... I want the theater to be made accessible to the people.
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The theatre has always been to me a place where beautiful lies are told, and playwrighting the orchestration of platitudes around a central flaw in logic or a ridiculous idea. Acting — the disguise and impersonation — is an art of deception.
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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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I love all of the arts. I love motion pictures. I love stage. I love theater.
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I want people to leave the theater and think, "How can I be a better person?" That's the only way things are going to improve.
