Theatrical Quotes

• At this point we've answered about every question you could possibly imagine about Deep Space Nine, so we do this thing called Theatrical Jazz, where we do a show of bits and pieces of things from plays and literature, poetry... stuff that we like. It's fun.

  

  Rene Auberjonois
  • Fun
  • Question
  • Poetry

• When I first started out on the soap, I was more theatrical, like a stage actor, a little bigger than life. As I did more and more Love Of Life, I became more natural. I learned the value of underplaying. It was a great training ground for me. There was a big difference in my style of acting from where I started with that show and where I ended, and where I ended was a good jumping-off point for doing nighttime television and movies.

  

  Ray Wise
  • Training
  • Natural
  • Nighttime

• Musicals are, by nature, theatrical, meaning poetic, meaning having to move the audience's imagination and create a suspension of disbelief, by which I mean there's no fourth wall.

  

  Stephen Sondheim
  • Mean
  • Moving
  • Imagination

• I'm the kind of person who would rather get my hopes up really high and watch them get dashed to pieces than wisely keep my expectations at bay and hope they are exceeded. This quality has made me a needy and theatrical friend, but has given me a spectacularly dramatic emotional life.

  

  Mindy Kaling
  • Expectations
  • Dramatic
  • Theatrical

• I think everything that I learned about stagecraft and carrying through - creating a through point for a theatrical device.

  

  David Bowie
  • Thinking
  • Creating
  • Devices

• What was once a cottage industry dedicated to the discovery and development of new voices and works has become instead the raison d'etre for many a playwright's existence . . .. And since readings have become playwrights' main source of exposure, the nature of playwriting has changed to fit readings' needs. Investigation into what is eminently theatrical has been substituted - more and more these days - by what can simply come across and read well.

  

  Caridad Svich
  • Reading
  • Existence
  • Changed

• My mom was a singer in Chicago and still is a cabaret singer, and she was very theatrical. And my dad's such a character at the dinner table.

  

  Hayes MacArthur
  • Mom
  • Chicago
  • Singer

• It's funny how that comes up, because sometimes I'll write something and I'll think, I don't know if that's a film or a play, and then other things I feel very strongly about them just being plays - they feel very theatrical to me.

  

  Neil LaBute
  • Thinking
  • Writing
  • Sometimes

• Innocence as we understand it in our culture is very theatrical. The flip side is, if you're charming enough, you can get away with anything.

  

  Susan Choi
  • Innocence
  • Get Away
  • Theatrical

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