Theater Quotes
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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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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.
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There's a way in which 'The Illusion' is a play about the theater.
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A lot of my friends were a lot into theater a lot earlier than I was. A lot of my friends were kids who were in The Broadway Kids and the kids auditioning for Gavroche in 'Les Miz.' I was never that kid. I was weaned on Michael Jackson. Not literally, because that would have been odd.
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The greatest sound in the theater is silence.
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The theater is a weapon, and it is the people who should wield it.
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At one point, I was hell-bent on being a Disney animator, and sort of got over that in college and wanted to do my own stuff. You know, towards the end of college I had actually planned to go to the Boston Conservatory of Music for musical theater.
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The trick about the theater is at the end of the day you cannot take any of it personally.
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I lost 100 pounds and embraced theater and music as what I was going to make for the rest of my life.
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I like time off because I also have a life outside of theater.
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The movies are not my first priority - the theater is.
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There's a social element of me that's pretty reserved. High school was when I was starting to come out of my shell because of the theater community.
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Not to toot our own horn, but when 'The Sopranos' was on, it was as good as any movie that was coming out in the theater. I think that goes for a lot of shows today.
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Sheer flattery got me into the theater. Flattery always works with me, particularly the flattery of women.
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I'm not a theater rat, so I never got a theatrical agent and did a play. I came really close though.
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I spend a part of the year in New York when based in L.A. and vice versa. It's the only way I feel balanced. Outside of theater and my community of friends out there, my family is still in N.Y., so I have a lot of reasons to spend time out there as well. I guess I'm bi-coastal.
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So far, I have been a spectator in this theater which is the world, but I am now about to mount the stage, and I come forward masked.
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Thank God for the theater.
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Because I wanted to have a place that I could create everything that I that I never had as a child. So, you see rides. You see animals. There's a movie theater.
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It's always a struggle with small films to get people in the theater. I think I have a perverse contrarian streak that's always kind of aspired to make movies that are impossible to market.
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I think of theater as a place of instructive entertainment where you can sit and learn to laugh or cry. I'm not going to ever contribute to delinquency in my roles, either adult or juvenile delinquency; I think too much of the public.
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As soon as there are 200 people in a theater watching me, I get really scared.
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Since I was 19, I've had the most fun possible every single day, even when I had a rough life. It was the army which taught me about life, and the theater which taught me how good it could be.
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The real stakes in the theater are high - they are life stakes. That's what I love about it. You gamble with your life, and that's a gamble worth taking.
