Quotes About Theater

Anything I do is as theatrical as I can get it.

I was always very theatrical. I went to theater school in a conservatory program.

Growing up, I started to realize I was surrounded by people who were passionately alive. Seventh Street felt raw, but I found it incredibly theatrical.

If you think about what 'The Killing' is, it is the theatrical production, not the script.

I was being groomed to be the theatrical caricaturist. And I know if I got that job, I'd never quit. So I quit. I knew I wanted to go into the theater... I wanted to act.

We love the idea of really putting on a show. It's not just a band playing on the stage. There's a theatrical element to what's going on.

As a child, I always thought about big screen and even played in a amateur theatrical studio.

People don't understand that when you come into any theatrical experience, you've got to come locked and loaded, that you're a part of the experience, too. You can't come with your arms crossed. Be open to it.

It's easy to get a theatrical release that shows in one theater for a week. But there's no advertising, and no one sees the movie. It's hard to get a real theatrical release. The distribution of independent films is, to me, extraordinarily frustrating.

The theatrical experience is also a communal one. When people saw 'Fruitvale' in the theater, there was not a dry eye at the end of the movie, and you would look to your neighbor and have this shared moment together that had a real weight behind it.

There's no place more theatrical than history.

I always thought from my knowledge of London theater and the audiences here that they would appreciate a truly genius piece of theatrical work.

Most theatrical events range in the inaudible. When I went to see 'Mamma Mia,' I thought they were playing it through a megaphone.

At home, people are more likely to be distracted than in a theatrical environment. They're checking their phones, pausing to get a snack, or sometimes jumping from show to show.

It's been increasingly hard to make small stories about female friendship, and, definitely, those stories don't have any shot of getting a theatrical release.

When you do a good theatrical production, sometimes you dream about that 8 o'clock curtain call for six months.

I am a product of National School of Drama and I always thought, why can't I get roles which will allow me to use my theatrical experiences.

I was in my last year in high school when I began to think of becoming a dancer. I had never seen a Broadway show; we never even read the theatrical reviews.

In 1969, I wrote a musical called 'Mother Earth.' It was a rock musical with an ecology theme. We did it at the South Coast Repertory Theatre in Southern California where I was a member. It was a smash hit in this small theater.

The meaning of a theater event is that none of us could see something so clearly as with the new energy that is brought with the meeting of a theme, actors living it, and an audience gradually entering it to live it with them. At that moment, a certain light appears, revealing what we would never have thought of on our own.

An actor doesn't change thought, theme, or mood unless the character does, and the character only does it within the words of the play.

I did as much theater as I could. I worked at a theme park and a Bible theater and a community theater.

I can talk to him about anything. We have the same kind of education and—" "What kind of education?" Clay asked. "We enjoy the arts. Music, literature, theater, art. My degree is in classical studies.

We have to tell our stories—in literature, film, theater, and other media—but we must also manifest cultural memory in communal deeds—in mourning and in celebration, in solemn remembrance and festal joy.