Theater Quotes
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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.
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Theater, because of the commitment, it has to be a great role and a great play to me. It takes a lot out of you.
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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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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 learned about life before I went into the theater, which is why I've been so happy. I was a soldier.
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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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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.
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Seeing what the film becomes, out of your hands - you never know, you know? I'm always rather anxious. It's not like in theater when you are more in control. You're more - not a puppet, but you don't control it. You don't own it.
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I converted a family-owned strip club into an improvisational acting theater.
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Violent resistance and nonviolent resistance share one very important thing in common: They are both a form of theater seeking an audience to their cause.
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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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I was in New York for a little while, doing some really bad theater. I did some great stuff, too, but there were Saturday morning theater performances in one-third-filled church basements. So, I paid my dues.
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This is my theater. This is where I can sing and act out a play and do sit-ups at the same time.
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Becoming interested in poetics got me interested in theater. Theater is supposed to be poetry, you know, before it's anything else. It just doesn't fly if it isn't musical.
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I don't think that theater is the higher medium, that it's better than film.
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No more duty can be urged upon those who are entering the great theater of life than simple loyalty to their best convictions.
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Theater is a space where you cross over from everyday life, because there are real people in that moment moving in front of you - you're being invited to believe in a story and cross that bridge.
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Well, first of all I'll say that I come alive best in theater.
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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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Live theater is just an incredibly powerful medium, and I think anyone who goes, whether they know about it or not, if they see something that sort of fits with them, it's kind of hard to deny that they had a good time.
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Theater is my temple and my religion and my act of faith. Strangers sit in a room together and believe together.
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What brought me to the theater, no matter you're a Jew or a Russian or Armenian or Latvian, are suddenly illuminated by stage light and one beautiful image of dance.
