Quotes About Theater

Why don't you check out those teenagers in the middle row? They've been going at it like dogs in heat ever since the previews. They're probably both werewolves. And even if they aren't, you should throw them out on principle alone.

Über Bertolt Brecht) aber letztlich war er doch kein Lehrer und kein Volkserzieher. Er war ein leidenschaftlicher Verführer. Möglichst alle wollte er verführen: Frauen und Männer, Junge und Alte, Künstler und Politiker. Und nirgends schienen ihm die Menschen so verführbar wie im Zuschauerraum des Theaters.

vom Geschlecht jener, die glauben, ohne Literatur und Musik, ohne Kunst und das Theater habe das Leben keinen Sinn

It is not my intention to give away the plot; but I think I die at the end.

Ellen was the audience before which the blustering drama of Gerald O'Hara had been played. Now the curtain had been rung down forever, the footlights dimmed and the audience suddenly vanished, while the stunned old actor remained on his empty stage, waiting for his cues.

Whereas with us - what you hear is what's happening right then and there on the stage - so we don't need no stinking technology.

I took a lot of time off after Mobsters and although I did something I had never done before, which was to direct a play, The Laughter Epidemic, it felt like a vacation.

The first time I acted was in high school in Florida, and when I heard that applause I felt so alive and felt that electricity go up my spine.

I started acting when I was 10, doing musical theater. I was a brunette at that time. I was always cast in all the exotic parts.

There may be a time when we'll attend Weather Theaters to recall the sensation of rain.

I've always really liked theater. It fascinated me. You can create a reality and get people involved in that reality. It takes place in real time.

Many of the shows I danced in don't exist on film, but they do exist in the memories of those who were in the theater for that single moment in time. And nothing can replace that.

Every time I go to the theater, there's something about the atmosphere, seeing something unfold live in front of an audience, that you can't get out of your system.

I can't say that I haven't done some bad acting in my time. I have. Usually that involves what we actors call indicating, when you twirl your mustache.

Actors and actresses make magic,' I said. 'They make things happen on the stage; they invent; they create.

It was from Dionysus, the wine god, that the theater came.

So that's how we go on acting dramas in our theater of the mind even when we don't believe anymore in the audience or the director or the play.

boy—before intense anxiety had crushed his chances for the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater and sent him into the awful mental decline in which he'd been made a vampire.

I sat watching, listening, one hand shielding my lowered face from anyone and no one, my elbow resting on the rail, the passion in me subsiding, the taste of the girl on my lips. It was as though on the smell of the rain came her perfume still, and in the empty theater I could hear the throb of her beating heart.

It was as though on the smell of the rain came her perfume still, and in the empty theater I could hear the throb of her beating heart.

Because I'd only done theater, that's really what I thought most of my life would be. I always figured that movies would be a part of it at some point. I didn't know how or when.

I'm infinitely more involved in the reality of the characters and their situation than I am in everyday life.

I left the theater; I literally left to begin a new life.

I won't go back to the theater. I like some of the things they're doing but it's different now, not something I could do. I'll go on making films the rest of my life.