Theater Quotes
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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 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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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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Sheer flattery got me into the theater. Flattery always works with me, particularly the flattery of women.
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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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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 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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There's such a thing as theater discipline. One player doesn't appropriate another's inventions.
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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 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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Music is for theater like theater is for scripts. It's total: it's cyclical.
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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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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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Theater has an incredible capacity to move people to social change, to address issues, to inspire social revolution.
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Not to go to the theater is like making one's toilet without a mirror.
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We were at the Schubert Theater for two years. And we were the first act.
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I might be doing a lot more theater, which is kind of what I love, but there's simply no time for.
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I had no training in the theater. I did not study it but just did 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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Opera is everything rolled into one - music, theater, the dance, color and voices and theatrical illusions.
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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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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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I'd much rather see Richard Pryor or Jackie Mason in a theater than in a club.
