Theater Quotes
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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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The space of play and the space of thought are the two theaters of freedom.
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Priests are very interested in theater in New York! It's this lovely reminder that priests are just people, too, who need to be entertained.
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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.
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Music is for theater like theater is for scripts. It's total: it's cyclical.
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I'm set to have my best year ever: I'm hiring some acts and there will be a show in the morning, in the afternoon and in the evening. I'm going to use my theater to its fullest potential.
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Socially, I like the idea of sitting in a theater with a bunch of people.
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Theater has to resonate in your heart in a way that movies don't.
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I think the hardest thing I've had to learn is that just because people might speak a certain way in real life doesn't mean it's engaging in 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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When I was doing theater, I was very successful at believing that I was great, God's gift to the theater.
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Dance was always part of my life because I was a dancer and my mother was a dancer, and I love the theater.
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Opera is everything rolled into one - music, theater, the dance, color and voices and theatrical illusions.
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First one works alone through the mind, then before the public through experience.
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Theater has an incredible capacity to move people to social change, to address issues, to inspire social revolution.
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Thank God for the theater.
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I love the theater; the theater sort of raised me. So I'm quite sure I will go back to the theater. Right now I'm sort of captured in the all-consuming, fantastical world of movies.
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I think theater is powerful. The best experiences I had in the theater are more powerful than the best experiences I had in movies.
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The theater is a weapon, and it is the people who should wield it.
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I was a really good student. I was nerdy and ambitious. I was involved with every large theater production at my school.
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There is a place where the malformed find grace, where the hideous can be beautiful, where strangeness is not shunned but celebrated. This place is the theater.
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Take some wood and canvas and nails and things. Build yourself a theater, a stage, light it, learn about it. When you've done that you will probably know how to write a play.
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I was an anguished little girl with just one wish: to become an actor. I debuted in live theater at 14 with Dario Niccodemi's 'La Nemica.'
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If you're a woman doing classic theater, the big roles are often destroyers. I've played Hedda Gabler, Lady Macbeth, some of the Chekhovian heroines, Electra, Phaedra - they're all powerful women, but they're forces of negativity.
