Theater Quotes
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The greatest sound in the theater is silence.
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Theater schools teach you how to act, but they don't teach you anything about the business, so I got to New York, had no idea what the hell I was doing, and just did anything I could for a really long time.
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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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The trick about the theater is at the end of the day you cannot take any of it personally.
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I guess Richard Pryor was that good. I never saw him in a theater, but I imagine he was that good, because he was such a phenomenal actor.
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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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I was a crazy guy in Hollywood back in the day, and then when I switched into theater I got into work mode.
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This...is an age of specialization, and in such an age the repertory theater is an anachronism, a ludicrous anachronism.
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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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I think making movies and being in theater and TV, there's this beautiful little family. It's so intense that you form these little families, and that's what I loved.
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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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My grandmother was my inspiration. She was the person who took me to the theater and encouraged me to act, and she's the one who always believed in me.
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In the theater, I could envision myself as wonderful because of the audience response to my lines.
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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 really do love the theater and as you get deeper into your career, it gets harder to carve out the time to do theater.
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I'd much rather see Richard Pryor or Jackie Mason in a theater than in a club.
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There's such a thing as theater discipline. One player doesn't appropriate another's inventions.
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I'm very aware that when one is acting in the theater, you do become kind of animal about it. And you're reliant on instincts rather than tact a lot of the time.
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I'd love to go back and do theater. There's nothing like that instant response and the connection to a live audience.
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I began writing for theater, and maybe because of that I've always thought of myself as a theater writer who does work in film sometimes.
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The visceral experience of seeing a movie in three dimensions, coming at you in the theater, is obviously here to stay, because it is a unique experience. I think that kind of format is only appropriate for some genres, but I'm all for it.
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The Open Society of Athens In democratic Athens of the fifth and fourth centuries BC, Greek civilization reached the apex of creativity. Perhaps alone among the Greek communities studied in this book, the classical Athenians demonstrated their ample endowment with every one of the ten characteristics that defined the ancient Greek mind-set. They were superb sailors, insatiably curious, and unusually suspicious of individuals with any kind of power. They were deeply competitive, masters of the spoken word, enjoyed laughing so much that they institutionalized comic theater, and were addicted to pleasurable pastimes. Yet the feature of the Athenian character that underlies every aspect of their collective achievement is undoubtedly their openness—to innovation, to adopting ideas from outside, and to self-expression.
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Anyone can do theater, even actors. And theater can be done everywhere. Even in a theater.
