Quotes About Theater

and watched Alan Rickman act up a storm in Private Lives. Someone once said that this highly mannered actor had made a career out of being brilliant in roles where no brilliance was required.

If you can lie, you can act, and if you can lie to crazy girlfriends, you can act under pressure.

I beg you to believe that life is not a process, it's a drama

Life is rather like acting lessons while you are on stage giving a public performance!

Acting is an escape from the boring person that I am in real life.

In the theater, as in life, we prefer a villain with a sense of humor to a hero without one.

I couldn't get used to the community and social life of a theatrical set designer.

OPERA, n. A play representing life in another world, whose inhabitants have no speech but song, no motions but gestures and no postures but attitudes.

There's a point you get to on the stage where you're not remembering lines but living them, and you reach this pure moment which, really, is more intense than what you can achieve in life.

For me, the canvas is an abstract interpretation of a wall. It's a piece of art with its own history, one that alludes to the passage of time and to the theater of life.

Soon I worked during twelve years in theater works of the prestigious Theatre National Populaire. It was the best time of my life, the most difficult, the most interesting, the most exciting.

In '75, the year both A Chorus Line and Chicago hit Broadway, my head spun around and I became the ultimate theater queen for life.

Where do I begin? I loved working with Kate Hepburn, which was one of the highlights of my life; Working with Richard Burton in Beckett was another great joy.

We live in what is, but we find a thousand ways not to face it. Great theater strengthens our faculty to face it.

It's always great to play parts that are larger than life.

In the theater," Adelaide went on, wanting him to understand why she found this so interesting, "your audience doesn't expect things to look real. Like, you can't have a real car on the stage, anyway, can you? So instead, you make something obviously artificial. You just create the feeling. And maybe the thing you make, instead of looking real, feels true.

I am so used to seeing the sort of play which deals with one man and two women. They do not leave me with the feeling I have made a full theatrical meal they do not give me the experience of the multiplicity of life.

Besides nature is a theater of secondary importance compared with world history.

They had tried to reproduce their own attitude to life upon the stage, and to dress up as the middle-class English people they actually were.

Live theater to me is much more free than the movies or television.

The body lay outside an abandoned, boarded-up theater. The theater had started as a first-run movie house, many years back when the neighborhood had still been fashionable. As the neighborhood began rotting, the theater began showing second-run films, and then old movies, and finally foreign-language films.

Primer acto, un francés tira un balde de yeso al mar. Segundo acto, un francés tira un balde de yeso al mar. Tercer acto, un francés tira un balde de yeso al mar. ¿Cómo se llama la obra? "La marsellesa".

If Attila the Hun were alive today, he'd be a drama critic.

I'm not responsible for the commercialization. The people who produce the plays are responsible for it.