Theater Quotes
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I've never done theater professionally. But I went to the American Academy of Dramatic Arts, so I did some theater there.
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I think, as an actor, theater is like one of the things that you feel most in control of and in charge of.
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I've had so many people just come up to me and say, 'When you came up on the screen, everybody in the theater applauded.' It's just so sweet, really.
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I couldn't remember my name for weeks. I'd be at the theater and hear them calling 'Miss Stanwyck, Miss Stanwyck,' and I'd think 'Where is that dame? Why doesn't she answer? By crickie, it's me!
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I like melodrama because it is situated just at the meeting point between life and theater.
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I love variety. I love theater. I also love radio. I love language. But, the older you get, you need to earn money. You need to heighten your profile.
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People pay all that money to sit in a chair in the theater mainly because it is a respectable way to see and experience things they cannot see and experience in their own lives.
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I try to get on stage whenever I can. I'm always trying to be involved in the theater, doing something on stage, whenever I have downtime. I'm always looking for it.
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If ever I feel I might be able to tackle it, I'd love to try holding a spear or something in the theater, or opening a door, or anything, just to try it, you know, because it must be some marvelous magic thing.
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I've always been into theater and movies. When I was in school, I did a monologue for my talent show. I would go to the local theater. I was always in dance. I was always performing. That was always my thing.
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At this point the theater America is in such a precarious place.
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I made theater very important in the beginning of my career.
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I don't love the theatre. I'm just not one of them.
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Mankind may be divided into playgoers and not playgoers.
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It’s one of the most enjoyable experiences. To me, it’s theater. Immediate reaction, the second it’s done. I get to be in my living room with you, trolling my own show.
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The reason I was in most of the movies I've done is that they paid for me to be in the theater.
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A good ending is vital to a picture, the single most important element, because it is what the audience takes with them out of the theater.
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Theater is a recreation. It can be much more, but unless it's recreation, I don't see the point of it.
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I was chubby and awkward, and the only way I could really meet girls was to join children's theater, so that's what I did.
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I like to originate new roles and characters for musical theater.
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I’ve always been in the theater. I’ve always gone to it. That’s been my way to cope. Early on in my career, I remember running - fleeing - to the theater as a way of coping with all the meshugaas that was going on for me.
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I think that there is a real beauty to the live aspect of the theater, and the working with a director for a month on a script in the isolation of a room and really deeply delving into who are these people, what is the story we're telling, how do we want to tell it?
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Theater acting is an operation with a scalpel, movie acting is an operation with a laser
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Because the opposite of fascism isn't anarchy, it's theater. When the world is fucked, you go to the theater, you go to the shine, and when the bad men come, all there is left to do is sing them down.
