Quotes About Theater

Reading the play at home, however fulfilling, can never be the vivacious experience that Shakespeare intended.

I only know two kinds of audiences - one coughing, and one not coughing.

doce horas en la cama, cuatro en el tocador, cinco en visitas y tres de paseo, o en el teatro.

El teatro ya no es sólo una comunicación, como la novela o como la poesía, que se recibe asordinadamente y que puede perderse, ni tampoco una simple transmisión de un mensaje por la voz de un orador o de un jugar, que tiene una sola intensidad, una sola nota y una sola vía, sino que, además de todo esto, es el prodigioso encuentro de dos presencias...

My play was a complete success. The audience was a failure.

When I was little, I saw the play 'Les Miserables' on Broadway, I thought it was the most amazing thing I have ever seen.

My mom thought I might be good for voiceover. She thought I had a cute voice, so maybe I could do a cartoon or something. And while we were looking into that, we also thought I should get into theater acting, so I tried it and the first audition I went on, I booked it. And it kind of just snowballed from there.

Enseñe a sus hijos a hacer del escenario de su mente un teatro de alegría, y no un escenario de terror.

Ever seen the play Arsenic and Old Lace?

When the curtain goes up, it's ours. It's ours to project what the playwright wants to stay to an audience, what to convey and to get a response from the audience immediately. Movies are great fun and wonderful when they're good. But you never get to see them till six months after they're finished. So you never get a sense of whether they're really well liked or how good they are. And you don't really know what the finished product is going to be like, because it's a director's medium.

Men must know that in this theater of man's life it is reserved only for God and angels to be lookers on.

I was a judge for the 2014 NYMF season. I've done it for a few years. They send you a certain amount of scripts and scores, and you rank them.

I was fascinated by all of it. The sounds of the theater and the audience, their rapture when a play took over and moved them and held them quietly... When the audience was truly moved, it was absolutely quiet. They were in a communion because they were learning the truth about themselves.

'The Master,' it was really important to me to go see that in the theater, but that's a very rare occurrence for me. I typically enjoy things on my laptop. I'm in bed; I can be able to pause them.

Usually, in musical theater, if you sing operatically or if you sing in a legit style, you're the heart of the show. You maybe get to be moving and do dramatic stuff, but it's very rare to be that funny.

It's rare that you get to play a great role that has an arc.

I don't see that many plays, and for me, musicals are rarely pleasing.

As a matter of fact, I rarely ever play myself.

I will take to my grave with me the atmosphere of the first 'Cursed Child' preview, because no one knew anything. Only very rarely have I been able to deploy the phrase 'audible gasps.'

I very rarely get nervous as an actor. Very rarely.

I never played the right roles, or very rarely got the right roles offered, except on stage.

Sometimes in theater, they'll talk about your character a lot before you enter, but that rarely happens in television.

I get to be in a room with other actors, but I never, or very rarely, get the chance to be in a room with another director.

I have a psychology degree, but I was a real theater rat.