Theater Quotes
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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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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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I've worked with a lot of great glamorous girls in movies and the theater. And I'll admit, I've often thought it would be wonderful to be a femme fatale. But then I'd always come back to thinking that if they only had what I've had - a family, real love, an anchor - they would have been so much happier during all the hours when the marquees and the floodlights are dark.
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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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It's not enough for me to cover theater, I have to throw myself around every other art form, and do so thoroughly and relentlessly.
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At the School of Visual Arts in New York, you can get your degree in Net art, which is really a fantastic way of thinking of theater in new ways.
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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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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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Originally, theater was my life. It was what I assumed I'd spend my working life doing - if I was lucky. Then along came movies.
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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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Movies are all about plot. Theater, even if it's story heavy, it's about ideas.
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My mother is an actress, and she used to drag me from theater to theater and reading to reading.
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My parents set a fantastic example for me in that their passion came from theater.
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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 don't want Him to return and find me sitting in a theater.
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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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Neither should the theater in our country be regarded as a luxury. It is a necessity because in order to make democracy work the people must increasingly participate; they can't participate unless they understand; and the theater is one of the great mediums of understanding.
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I attend surprisingly few shows. The type of theater that is popular today just doesn't appeal to me.
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Theater definitely prepared me for Cyborg in the best way possible. All of the green screen definitely takes me to my minimalist theater days.
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First one works alone through the mind, then before the public through experience.
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I tried to double major in Psychology & Theater at Loyola Marymount but felt I needed to concentrate more on theater.
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I do come from theater. I didn't spend a lot of time there 'cause once I started in television, I just kind of stayed there.
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I eventually became an actor, starting with doing stand-up comedy in New York and then theater wherever they would let me. Finally, I moved out here to Los Angeles and got on a show.
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The space of play and the space of thought are the two theaters of freedom.
