Quotes About Theater

I'm very resistant to most forms of theater.

I take the theater seriously in that I loathe it, I'm bored by it.

We're passionate musicians, but we felt classical concerts were more like a funeral because nobody talked and everybody was dressed so conservatively. We thought that's kind of strange, because music is full of life! We thought we could break through that barrier with theater and comedy elements.

Wouldn't it be grand if we thought that theater could have that impact on the political life of a country?

When the theater gates open, a mob pours inside, and it is the poet's task to turn it into an audience.

A lot of people, especially Japanese, come to the theater to have a good cry.

Cary Grant was wonderful to work with on stage. He would move downstage, so that as he looked at me the audience had to look at me, too. He knew a lot about the theater and how to move around. He was very secure.

I went to school for singing, middle school at LaGuardia High School. Followed by Berkeley College of Music and afterwards I went to acting school at the Neighborhood Playhouse for Theater.

I started, obviously, doing theater, and I always thought that I would; in a way, I always thought that I'd be a theater actor. When I was starting out, I didn't really plan on making films, actually.

There's a kind of dynamic quality about theater and that dynamic quality expresses itself in relation to, first of all, the environment in which it's being staged; then the audience, the nature of the audience, the quality of the audience.

My parents certainly didn't have anything to do with the theater. I'm some kind of accident.

I'm not attracted to naturalism, I'm not attracted to behavior, I'm attracted to dance. I'm attracted to gesture, I'm attracted to singing with your voice, as opposed to having a natural manner. I'm a theater actor first, so that probably influences a lot of my approach. And I think in many ways, naturalism has ruined movies.

Theater for me at one point was a lifestyle, too.

The show can go on without me, and probably will, but I want to come back to act in Chicago. My wife and I just bought a condo downtown, and I want to do theater.

I think theater is powerful. The best experiences I had in the theater are more powerful than the best experiences I had in movies.

When I was a little girl, the only real form of entertainment I was exposed to was theater, being raised in St. Louis, and I still love theater, and I think sitcoms are similar to that, in there's a live audience, and you know, I definitely like the comedy of it, too. I like to make people laugh, and I definitely think laughter is healing.

Theater actors like to change character roles. They don't like to always do the same thing.

I'm an extrovert, I like to gesticulate and talk loud and stuff, and the theater is easy for me.

Theater is far superior to film in poetry, in abstract poetry.

As a kid, I had a background in theater.

It was very natural for me to want to disappear into dark theater, I am really very shy. That is something that people never seem to fully grasp because, when you are an actor, you are meant to be an exhibitionist.

The great thing about theater is that you have so much time to prepare, and to fail, before presenting it to the public. In film, the high-wire act seems to be that much farther up, and the net seems to be less there.

I've been lucky enough to be part of some great ensembles in theater - I'd been doing theater since college.

To make theater out of real life, you need to catch dialogue when it happens.