Theater Quotes
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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 always go back and do theater. I love it. It keeps an actor improving in a way, it sort of keeps your craft alive, if that makes sense.
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There's a romance and power to live theater.
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Theater really is an actor's medium: you're on stage with no director anymore, whereas in film very rarely do you get much rehearsal other than running through the scene very quickly. Then everyone comes in and shoots it.
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Theater in Chicago will always be my first love. It started careers for me and about 50 of my friends. We all love coming back. As soon as the TV show is over, I'll be back in Chicago, doing live theater.
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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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Pictures are much harder to do than the theater... You're at the mercy of the camera angles and the piecemeal technique.
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Not to go to the theater is like making one's toilet without a mirror.
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Anyone can do theater, even actors. And theater can be done everywhere. Even in a theater.
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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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The Sherry Theater, which I named after my mom, is a place I can go. I do want to give back to the community. There are so many people out there who want to be seen and heard, and get connected.
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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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The only reason to do a 'SpongeBob' on Broadway is if it's gonna bring something new to the brand, something new to 'SpongeBob,' and also something innovative to theater and to Broadway.
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I did some really bad plays at a children's theater in Kentucky where I'm from and went from there.
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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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In the theater the audience is generally riveted to a single angle of observation. The movie director, though, can rapidly shift from objective to subjective--and to any number of subjective points of view--and in so doing seem to pull the audience directly inside the frame of his picture, giving the spectator the sense of experiencing an action from the viewpoint of a participant. Identification of the viewer with the film character, then, can be much more intimate than the analogous situation in the theater.
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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.
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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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All I know is that as an audience member, I am less and less inclined to go to the theater.
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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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Unless we tell stories about ourselves, which is all that theater is, we're in deep trouble.
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I'm kind of in love with my theater agent. I'm a true naive about the theater, a total innocent.
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Thank God for the theater.
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There is definitely a correlation between theater and wedding fashion.
