Quotes About Theater

I like the theater enormously, but I truly love films - the whole bizarre, boring process that it can be.

As an actor in the theater you're taught that you never play a bad guy. You have to love who you are. You can't say, "Oh, I'm a bad guy." How do you play that?

I love being funny! I started in the theater when I was 9 and, believe it or not, always played the funny part!

I'd love to do Broadway some day. Before I started doing television I was just a primarily a stage actor, but I haven't done it in a while.

I'd love to do theater. I've done so many plays in my life. I still think of that as my main thing.

Acting for me was the gospel, the love of the spoken word.

I think the reason I'm an actress is because I love playing kind of a more extreme people.

I loved the stage and then grew to love the camera.

I am a big popcorn fanatic. I love popcorn. In fact one year for my birthday, my husband bought me one of those big popcorn machines like they have in movie theaters.

When you're in theater or the circus or film - to me it's all one - affairs happen. People fall in love.

Actors love mental disorders, dialects, and corsets. Give them one of the three and they're happy

Acting is a total physical, emotional sensation.

People often argue about this. Obviously one of the skills in performance is acting, and you can't expect every Romeo to really be in love with their Juliet!

I will never leave the theater. My heart is there and I love being on stage eight times a week.

Describí cómo había llegado a la conclusión de que los elementos que constituían el mundo como una obra de teatro eran el orden y el caos, y no elementos materiales.

recomendaba: «Si hay un rifle apoyado en la pared en el primer acto, tiene que dispararse en el segundo. De lo contrario, no pinta nada ahí».

tragedy in the theater opens our eyes so that we can discover and appreciate the heroic in reality.

Shadow boxes become poetic theater or settings wherein are metamorphosed the elements of a childhood pastime. The fragile, shimmering globules become the shimmering but more enduring planets—a connotation of moon and tides—the association of water less subtle, as when driftwood pieces make up a proscenium to set off the dazzling white of sea foam and billowy cloud crystallized in a pipe of fancy.

They don't realize that burlesque for centuries has been a legitimate branch of show business. I'll admit it's the lowest branch, but that's the limb nearest the people.

We were taught firmly as children that whenever any member of the family appeared on the stage we were never to applaud. Never! It just wasn't done, either when they came on the stage or at the end of the performance. To do so would have been to break one of the firmest family rules of etiquette.

To her the theater was never "show business." My grandmother would rise up out of her grave if she heard me use that word. She'd say "show--do you mean a circus?" and she would say it as if she were the Red Queen saying, "Off with her head!"

Though I was excited about the Sojourner Truth play, it was not reassuring to think that my entire future might depend on the success of that one show.

Real life, the real world, is a vast theater of salvation, directed by our wise and totally involved God.

Drama lies in extreme exaggeration of the feelings, an exaggeration that dislocates flat everyday reality.