Quotes About Theater

If you have a rifle, hanging on the wall in the first act, it should fire in the last act".

Non possiamo sempre aspettare con pazienza. E' come in amore. Ci innamoriamo di una persona e subito il nostro tempo accelera, l'abbiamo lasciata un momento fa e subito vorremmo rivederla, le ore lontano da lei sembrano lunghissime. Allora corriamo, scavalchiamo ostacoli e barriere, solo per raggiungerla un minuto prima. Michelle, lei ha fretta perchè è innamorata del suo futuro, del suo mestiere,del desiderio di tornare alle luci del teatro

Acting is in everything but the words.

The imagination is closer to the actor than real life-more agreeable, more comfortable.

The actor must be full of passion. If he's too cool he's better off as the manager of a company, not someone who appears on the stage.

Acting is reacting.

It's the ultimate theater. The stakes are money, the mother's milk of politics, great heaping mountains of it. And the actors are politicians, without a doubt the lowest form of animate life. Charlatans, mountebanks, liars, hypocrites—they'd cut off your nuts for another term in office, or even a favorable article in a hometown newspaper.

Faith," Bram Stoker once said, "is to be found more often in a theater than in a church.

There's an old rule of theater that goes, 'If there's a gun on the mantel in Act I, it must go off in Act III.' The reverse is also true.

I think acting is revealing to people what it means to be human.

I don't mean to sound - I don't want it to come out funny, but I don't like show business. I love - I love acting in films. I love it.

I like drama. I love being in a drama where I get to be the funny guy. That's what I really love the most.

There are a couple of roles I haven't played that I want to. I would love to play Shiloh.

I love acting, especially if it's a fantasy of some kind, where it's not just realistic, it's not naturalism.

The thing I love about live performance the most, is that the doors are closed, the lights are turned down, and the audience has to be reverential to what's happening onstage.

I love acting. It is so much more real than life.

I was a huge theater geek growing up, and that was not the easiest thing in the world, especially growing up in Chicago, where sports are really the norm. I was always off to the theater at night, from 7 years old on. Friends there in the Midwest who could talk to you about the idiosyncrasies of 'Pippin' were few and far between.

Actors," he says, "should only be superficial on the surface.

a Jew had to have two synagogues. One that he went to, one that he rejected. The Butcher's Theater

I was trained as a neurologist, and then I went into the theater, and if you're brought up to think of yourself as a biological scientist of some sort, pretty well everything else seems frivolous by comparison.

It's commonplace to describe theater—the activity underpinning the very existence of this book—as a collaborative artform in which the author's words are shaped, embodied and adapted by actors, directors, producers, designers, musicians and above all, audiences.

Pro?imo redom sve vrste zadovoljstava što ih takvo putovanje pruža. Putuješ li sa ženom? - Da. - Zna?i, jedno zadovoljstvo manje. Ostaju: krajobrazí, kazališta, muzeji i obiteljski posjeti.

It had all been an endless, meaningless round of theater performances that he now couldn't remember and long stays at country houses and dances and card parties and eating and drinking to excess and more eating and drinking to excess—and nothing to show for any of it.

No sooner is a playhouse opened in any part of the Kingdom than it at once becomes surrounded by a halo of brothels.