Quotes About Theater

In the theater there are players who can make a production out of eating an apple.

There are a lot of things about the theater that bore me stiff: trying on costumes, being photographed, going to hairdressers, dieting that I may not overlap the costumes, the wretched dressing rooms, the overheated theaters, the grim mutes who make up benefit audiences who, for all their concern with charity, can't be thawed out with an acetylene torch.

I've played Private Lives everywhere except underwater.

For all its flaws and demands, for all its stupidities, the theater will outlive all the mechanical contraptions schemed to ape it.

A visitor reading all the reviews the day after a New York opening would arrive at the conclusion that these men had not all seen the same play, so conflicting are their judgments.

My eyes had actual tears, and I thought: It's like this play is happening TO me. Inside me. I wanted to own it. I wanted to eat it, as

Rarely offstage, rarely on hiatus, Fiddler on the Roof has already been back on Broadway for four revivals, played London's West End four times, and remains among Broadway's longest-running shows ever.

Two objects cannot occupy the same space at the same time. We've never quite made peace with that in the theater---set designer Robin Wagner

The scene is France. The theater is the world.

He took one long slow breath: crossed right hand over left upon his breast: became like a piece of a pageant; and responded "I will."

Eva Tanquay, Cliff Japs did Fanny Brice. The

It used to be that you would go out to the theater and get a bite or you would go to the game and get a bite or go to the concert and get a bite. At this point in our society, the bite is often the main event. So it has to be more than turkey and gravy and potatoes. The lighting and the buzz and everything in addition to the food have an impact on what the customer feels. In that way, it's very much in the theatrical sense.

Never thought acting was something you could make a living at. It wasn't until I was in college, and got a lead in a play, that I began to realize I might just be able to blunder into this profession.

They realized I was alive again, even though I was playing an old, dying sop.

While I was doing these plays in the beginning, I wasn't getting paid. I thought of it more as a hobby. Then I realized how seriously a lot of these people took what they were doing.

The best thing about being nominated in a category like best new play is realizing there were enough new plays to make a category.

Honestly, I think I was in kindergarten. I remember seeing a play and realizing that was what I wanted to do. I remember always wanting to retreat to my room or somewhere private to play pretend by myself.

I'm much too egotistical to move outside the acting realm.

Generally, the realm in which black playwrights have been allowed to achieve success has been social realism or musicals.

This is more than just the rebuilding of the Globe, creating some kind of monument to Shakespeare which he doesn't need. His books are his monuments. But this will be a major center for the study of Shakespeare in performance. We are making the only faithful effort to restore the theater in every respect as close to the original as possible.

Careers are funny things. They begin mysteriously and, just as mysteriously, they can end; and I am at just the very beginning of what I hope will be a long and satisfying life in the theater. But, whatever happens, I am grateful to have had my novice work received so well, and so quickly.

As an actor you have to get used to receiving gentle little pies in the face.

Acting is communication. It's giving and receiving.

I have felt some twinges recently, about parts I wanted to play that I may be getting too old and fat to do. 'Hamlet,' for example - maybe that's gone. I would love to play Richard II.