Quotes About Theater

If I could act in theater, my whole life, and never act in film or television again, and just direct the rest of my life, I would gladly do that.

Real life is messy, and drama is a shaped version of real life.

My whole background, my whole life was just lots and lots of theater, a lot of that being musical theater.

I don't think my looks are modern. I always imagined I'd end up doing Chekhov, Ibsen and Shakespeare all my life and never play a contemporary character.

I've never been onstage in my life.

Sometimes we feel like life is like theater, really.

Having grown up in a racist culture where 2 and 2 are not 5, I have found life to be incredibly theatrical and theater to be profoundly lifeless.

The Kessler Theater is one such gem, an Art Deco beauty … for a slice of real life, there's always the Kessler.

Although the theater is not life, it is composed of fragments or imitations of life, and people on both sides of the footlight have to unite to make the fragments whole and the imitations genuine.

I think as an actor you're lucky to have any film take on a life of its own long after it's left the theater.

Theater is a space where you cross over from everyday life, because there are real people in that moment moving in front of you-you're being invited to believe in a story and cross that bridge.

There's theater in life, obviously, and there's life in theater.

Movies have takes. But plays are like life - you don't really get takes.

I'm not particularly precious about the theatrical experience any more.

There are as many ways to do this as there are to portray characters in the theater. You can be the drunken cowboy from Texas or the wildly animated lady from Taiwan who can't wait to get her next bet down. You can be Caspar Milquetoast, the nervous accountant from Indianapolis who has already lost too much down the street. Or Miss Spectacular, who draws all the attention to herself, not to how she bets and plays.

We are in the same tent as the clowns and the freaks-that's show business.

WHEN DODSWORTH OPENED two months later, there were lines around the block at New York's Rivoli Theatre. Mary snuck into a theater in Los Angeles to catch it. As soon as the audience heard her voice offscreen they burst into applause. She said it was one of the most satisfying moments in her life.

I soon realized that one of the most important things to find while working in theater was someone to giggle with. To find someone to giggle with I place just below finding someone to flirt with and just above the ability to knit. Those are the only three things to do while waiting to go on. Oh, and crosswords of course, if you can bear them. Anything else breaks the spell.

Well, Mom and Dad are both actors, and I've spent a lot of time watching my mom on stage and a lot of time on set with my dad, so it was very much a part of my growing up.

A book, an article, could make noise, but ancient warriors before the battle also made noise, and if it wasn't accompanied by real force and immeasurable violence it was only theater.

Un libro, un articolo potevano far rumore, ma il rumore si levava anche dai guerrieri antichi prima della battaglia e se non si accompagnava a una forza reale e a una violenza senza misura era solo teatro.

There is only one thing I respect in so-called Broadway actors... and that is their competitive sense.

When an actor has money he doesn't send letters, he sends telegrams.

When an actor has money, he doesn't send letters but telegrams.