Quotes About Theater

In the middle 1940s... I heard everyone live. Painting, the theater; everything was happening. It was an exciting time when New York was the place to be.

I don't see why people want new plays all the time. What would happen to concerts if people wanted new music all the time?

Well, Mom and Dad are both actors, and Ive 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.

I think anybody who has been in the theater, prefers it. Television is a... factory. You turn out things on a revolving assembly line. You don't have time to perfect anything in television.

It was the fashion of the time, still is, to feel that all actors are neurotic, or they would not be actors.

A lot of the time I hate the theater. You think, 'I have to climb Mount Everest, again, tonight.' Oh, the theater is a scary place to be.

I kind of did this thing in high school, a spoof of 'Sweeney Todd' called 'Shirley Todd,' and I had a great time doing that.

Usually in the first performances I'm completely panicked. And I pull myself together. By the time you get to the end of the play, you really start to have fun.

Acting has been gentrified. It's become part of the bourgeoisie. But there was a time when it would be a great scandal if you announced you were going to be an actor.

Being a part of the theater community has been important to me from the time I was a child, through my parents.

In the theater, it's about taking time in a musical segment, a pause in a musical way and then moving on.

The rehearsal time is almost my favourite part of being an actress, particularly if you're working on a play that hasn't been done before.

I think, being an actor, it's just a relief every time you get a part.

I go to the movies whenever I get the chance, because the movie theater is like the woods. It's another place that's like a time machine.

Every time I see a good play or watch a good movie, I have the same feeling I had as a child of wanting to be that person on stage or wanting to run through the forest with a big dress on.

I haven't been on the stage in a long time.

because the theater lost a Barrymore every time a Southerner decided not to go on the stage, just about anything that comes out of a Southern mouth is bound to be a ringing line.

The children never connect me with the man onstage when I come out the stage door. The parents spend all their time trying to convince them that I'm Caractacus.

If you're dealing with a musical in which you're trying to tell a story, it's got to sound like speech. At the same time it's got to be a song.

I feel like I prefer movies, but, at the same time, theater is so exciting when you're doing it. It's a harder job doing theater.

An actor is an impersonator; he plays many different roles. If you played the same role all the time, God that'd be a boring career.

Calvin says somewhere that each of us is an actor on a stage and God is the audience. That metaphor has always interested me, because it makes us artists of our behavior

No era la vida algo absurdo, una representación dramática que de súbito se volvía farsa?

Dad's Theory of Arrogance--that everyone always assumes they're the Principal Character of Desire and/or Loathing in everybody else's Broadway Play.